Registered Nurse- Tele/FT/Days

About the role

The Registered Nurse, RN, coordinates care to achieve desired outcomes, participates in patient and family teaching, and provides leadership by delegating and working cooperatively and collaboratively with ancillary, nursing, and other patient team members in maintaining standards for professional nursing practice and performance in the clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Change dressings, insert catheters, and start IVs.
• Accurately obtains & records results of assessment, care delivery, medication and administration, treatments, responses in the electronic medical record or on designation documentation packets.
• Maintains and updates patient files, medical charts, and health records.
• Organize and plan care of patients, with the ability to assess, determine treatment rationale and delivery, follow protocols, administer medications with accuracy and knowledge, educate patients.
• Attends and/or completes monthly, annual, and assigned training.
• Performs daily checks of and cleans equipment such as but not limited to monitors, code equipment, crash cart checks and oxygen cylinders.
• Prepares and administers medications using the rights established by the State Board of Nursing of state employed and facility policies and procedures.
• Trades patients appropriately using the ESI (Emergency Severity Index) system.
• Provides discharge instructions, follow up care and education to patients and family members.
• Utilizes AIDET in interactions with patients and family members. Uses white boards for patient communication.
• Collaborates across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including but not limited to patient transfer, discharge, referrals, and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.
• Maintains a professional, calm demeanor when stabilizing patients by coordinating with medical staff providers, EMS (Emergency Medical Services), coworkers, patients, and family members.
• Stocks assigned rooms, keeps work areas clean.

Qualifications/Experience

• One (1) years’ experience preferred in the area applied for.
• New Grads: Eligible for specific departments.
• In-depth knowledge of best practices in area/specialty applied for.
• Adaptable to changing work schedules and patient needs.
• Critical thinking, service excellence and good interpersonal communication skills, ability to read/comprehend written instructions, strong organizational skills, ability to follow verbal instructions, and PC (computer) skills.
• A capacity to learn, synthesize, make critical judgments, work independently, place patients and families first, and collaborate with the team members who are recognized leaders within health care.