Registered Nurse (T&RC) - Burn Unit Full-Time Night Shift

About the role

At Stony Brook Medicine, our Registered Nurses are critical members of the team who diagnose and treat responses to actual or potential health problems by means of nursing methods and techniques such as case finding, health teaching and counseling. Incumbents provide care supportive to and restorative of health and well‑being, while adhering to a medical regimen. Stony Brook Medicine integrates and elevates all of Stony Brook University’s health‑related initiatives: education, research and patient care. It includes our Health Sciences schools — Medicine, Dental, Health Professions, Nursing and Social Welfare — a Program in Public Health, as well as Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, Long Island State Veterans Home, and more than 200 community‑based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County.

Responsibilities

• Assess the patient’s condition and nursing needs.
• Coordinate nursing care activities with other health disciplines involved in the treatment effort to relate and integrate the nursing regimen with the treatment plan for patients.
• Develop a written individualized care plan which includes teaching needs and discharge planning.
• Administer direct care when professional nursing skills and judgment are needed.
• Administer medications.
• Practice infection control and participate in the maintenance of a clean and safe environment.
• Assume responsibility and accountability for the delivery of nursing care to all assigned patients.
• Communicate changes in patient’s condition and questions regarding patient care to Charge RN/Clinician.
• Develop and maintain current written plan of care for assigned patients.
• Set priorities to meet the patient’s needs.
• Set patient goals and priorities with the patient and/or family.
• Provide documented evidence in the medical record of patient/family teaching and their responses and understanding of the teaching.
• Ensure that patient education and instructions are consistent with that of the physician or designee.
• Communicate and work effectively with other staff and other departments.
• Participate in unit or hospital based quality assurance activities or committees to contribute to the advancement of the nursing profession at Stony Brook University Hospital.
• Work may involve exposure to infectious disease, blood, body fluids and/or tissue, as well as accidents, injuries and illness; handle