RN | AMU/PACU | Full Time - 36 hours | Day

About the role

This Registered Nurse (RN) 2 position exists within a designated inpatient specialty area. The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for a group of population-specific patients, from simple to complex cases with multi-system issues, in a safe and therapeutic environment. The role applies knowledge of growth and development principles across the lifespan, assesses patient data, and interprets information to identify age-specific needs. The RN engages in caring relationships with patients, families, and significant others; collaborates with other healthcare workers; and exercises sound clinical judgment while performing nursing and medical interventions. Adherence to specialty standards, organizational policies, procedures, guidelines, and protocols is required. Reports to the Director and/or Nurse Manager and may participate in supervision of Licensed Nursing Assistants and unlicensed personnel.

Education

• Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing
• BSN preferred

Certifications & Licensure

• Registered Nurse – New Hampshire Board of Nursing
• Basic Life Support – American Heart Association

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care
• Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgments and decisions
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment; interprets data to plan and implement interventions meeting patient care needs
• Develops, evaluates, and revises the patient’s plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient needs
• Documents care provided and patient progress toward desired outcomes
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care
• Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer, or preparation for procedure/test
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care
• Administers medications to patients

Experience

• One year prior clinical nursing experience required
• PACU, ICU, or ED experience preferred
• Evidence of effective, positive collaboration with patients, care providers, and the multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to perform as a member of a team

Physical & Work Requirements

• Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification: MEDIUM
• Regularly lift, carry, or push/pull up to 10 pounds
• Frequently lift, carry, or push/pull 10–25 pounds
• Occasionally lift, carry, or push/pull 20–50 pounds
• Regularly required: fine motor skills, hearing, speaking, walking
• Frequently required: bending, reaching, sitting, squatting, standing
• Occasionally required: climbing, repetitive motion, kneeling, smelling
• Vision abilities: color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, peripheral vision
• Frequent exposure to airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, and bodily fluids
• Occasional exposure to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical shock hazards, moving mechanical parts, non-weather-related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals
• Noise level usually moderate