Resource RN

Job Summary

You will provide diverse professional nursing services, delivering quality patient care, regulatory requirements, and nursing scope of practice. You are responsible for collaboratively developing, implementing, and assessing patient care plans. Directly engaging in patient care, utilizing critical thinking to assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team. Educating patients, families, and staff, implementing interventions for optimal outcomes, and managing issues in a physician's absence.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop, implement, and assess patient care plans.
• Directly engage in patient care, utilizing critical thinking to assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team.
• Educate patients, families, and staff, implementing interventions for optimal outcomes, and manage issues in a physician's absence.
• Demonstrate accountability for care quality, with authority to direct care and utilize resources efficiently, including comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients.
• Conduct care assessments and interpret assessment data to determine care needs and constraints in meeting these needs.
• Successfully complete system-based and hospital-specific competencies.
• Maintain accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, patient response, and integrate into the plan of care.
• In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient), evaluate, plan, direct, and administer care to the patient. Implement a plan of care based on established standards of care/practice, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related issues.
• Possess knowledge of medications and administer them safely and accurately.
• Appropriately delegate and supervise routine technical functions to non-licensed and licensed personnel.

Job Requirements

• Required Diploma of Nursing Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing and 1-3 years of experience as an RN in an acute care facility, upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 days and Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 months and Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 months.