Registered Nurse - Staff

About the role

Location: TriHealth Heart Institute.

Join TriHealth as a Registered Nurse – Staff at TriHealth! The Coumadin Clinic Device RN provides specialized nursing care for patients requiring anticoagulation management.

This position provides nursing services, either directly or indirectly, to participants in a specific program, specialty department, or practice. This position does initial assessments, and regular re-assessments: provides ongoing nursing services, works as part of an interdisciplinary team, focuses on prevention, early detection, acute and chronic illness. In the event an RN from a physician practice works in an inpatient area, s/he will have the capability to write verbal orders, enter orders, and pend access notes, and will be required to attend physician THC training.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and managing INR results
• Adjusting anticoagulation therapy per protocol
• Educating patients on medication management and safety
• Coordinating care with providers
• Documenting clinical interventions
• Plans care for participants and family based on assessment, standards of care and optimal outcomes.
• Initiates and individualizes appropriate patient care guidelines, POC or clinical pathways.
• Maintains current plan of care by updating as needed.
• Develops both short- and long-term goals.
• Participates as members of Interdisciplinary Team by identifying caregiver and participant needs, recommending interventions and collaborating with other health care team members for mutually determined solutions.
• Performs technical skills according to hospital's and department's policies/procedures, appropriate competencies, and accepted standards of practice.
• Implements POC.
• Prioritizes workload according to participants’ needs and requests.
• Bases interventions on clinical data, desired outcomes, the nursing process, and standards of care.
• Documents interventions and outcomes.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills in daily care including accurately receiving, interpreting and executing physician orders.
• Evaluates the plan of care based on optimal patient outcomes.
• Documents the participant / family response to care including teaching.
• Collaborate with other members of the health care team to revise plan of care as needed.
• Supervises the care that was delegated to other health care team members.