Registered Nurse - Special Care Nursery - Per Diem Nights

Description

Saint Francis Hospital, a member of Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, is seeking a part-time Registered Nurse to work in their Special Care Nursery on a night shift basis (12-hour shifts), every other weekend, and rotating holidays.

Posting Responsibilities

• Adheres to hospital nursing practice standards, demonstrating appropriate assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.
• Performs a comprehensive assessment of the neonate.
• Displays an understanding of normal newborn transitional care including thermoregulation, glucose monitoring, and respiratory status.
• Plans and delivers care to the newborn with complications.
• Identifies patient needs based on objective data and follows through with appropriate documentation.
• Implements appropriate nursing actions to meet each patient's needs identified.
• Makes decisions that reflect both knowledge of facts and sound judgment.
• Discusses with and includes parents about planned patient care and expected outcomes and documents same.
• Identifies and appropriately utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to facilitate delivery of patient care.
• Instructs parents in follow-up care/activities in preparation for transfer/discharge.
• Evaluates the parents' understanding of instructions.
• Gives written instructions and materials to parents.
• Documents understanding of instructions.
• Charts precise and specific observations via Focus Charting on Flow Sheets.
• Receives and gives a knowledgeable and concise patient report to others, as necessary, to demonstrate awareness of patient's overall conditions.
• Initiates Clinical Pathways/Plan of care on appropriate patient population on admission.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing preferred;
• Active RN License in the state of Delaware;
• BLS Required;
• Must obtain NRP certification within 6 months of employment;
• RNC preferred.