RN - Endoscopy

Responsibilities

• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice and creates positive therapeutic relationships with patients/families.
• Provides leadership to other team members by articulating and delegating expected standards of care, supervising and encouraging team members, and supporting their contributions.
• Supervises LPNs, PCAs, PCAs/US, US, ED Tech, ED Clerical/PCA, CRSS and OTs.
• Assesses condition on each assigned patient on admission and on an ongoing basis to include but not limited to the patient’s physical condition, psychological status, social status, spiritual and cultural needs, pain assessment/management, nutritional and functional status, developmental or age related factors, and discharge planning needs.
• Plans, provides, and documents patient and/or significant other education based on physical, behavioral, psychological, developmental, and age-related factors, after identifying barriers to learning.
• Evaluates and regularly reevaluates patient care; coordinates care planning with patient, family, providers and other disciplines to achieve patient-centered outcomes.
• Assigns and delegates nursing care to team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the capabilities of the team members.
• Applies safety principles when performing care and accurately documents observations, care provided and changes in care plan.
• Participates in transition rounds, care planning/problem identification and team shift reports.
• Assists in performance improvement (PI) activities by serving on PI teams as warranted, assisting with PI measures and supporting and implementing changes necessary for improvement.
• Performs initial and annual competency per job class.

Requirements

• Current Alabama RN licensure.
• Associate degree in Nursing required.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training required.
• AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training required within the first 6-12 months of employment in role.
• Professional Nursing Certification preferred.
• Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate clearly and accurately.
• Must be able to delegate to team members and students.
• Must be able to receive delegation.
• Must be able to address conflict and stressful situations.
• Must be able to communicate with different personalities and engage in face-to-face discussions.
• Must be able to deal with unpleasant or verbally/physically aggressive personalities.
• Must be able to use electronic mail, telephone and texting.
• Must be able to work in groups.
• Must be able to perform structured and unstructured work.
• Must be able to meet time pressure and time lines.
• Must be able to work prolonged shifts.

Physical Factors

• Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Reachable distances in any direction.
• Stand, walk, kneel, bend, sit and stoop.
• Run in an emergency.
• Maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull and carry objects.
• Finger coordination to perform tasks.
• Normal or corrected to within normal range hearing and vision.
• Essential physical presence onsite.