RN (FLEX) - Critical Care

About the role

Critical care nurses provide direct and individualized nursing care to patients based on the application of scientific nursing principles. They also assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.

Responsibilities

• Conducts ongoing focused physical, psychosocial, and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
• Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, and makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care.
• Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn, and incorporates family into the plan of care.
• Prioritizes and implements an efficient nursing plan of care.
• Consistently conducts timely evaluations, recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed, and adjusts the plan of care as necessary.
• Evaluates patient’s response to interventions and communicates with other healthcare team members the need to revise or maintain plan of care.
• Initiates and documents patient education based on treatment plan in the language that the patient understands.
• Documents assessment, interventions, changes in the patient’s condition and response to interventions based on hospital policy on documentation.
• Communicates with colleagues and interdisciplinary team about the prevention, treatment and patient care needs of the patient that has pressure injuries (reports, dietary consults, communicates with physicians).
• Communicates with colleagues and interdisciplinary team about the treatment and patient care needs of the patient that has pressure ulcers (reports, dietary consults, communicates with physicians).
• Manages patient post neuro procedure, or Neuro patient transferring from Surgical intensive care unit.
• Calculates and administers according to the guideline.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, arterial line pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, Balloon Pump, Hypo/Hyperthermia machine, CVVHD, Peritoneal Dialysis.
• Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician.
• Demonstrates efforts in the prevention of hospital acquired conditions (HAC) CAUTI, CLABSI, Pressure injuries and Falls.
• Records all patients’ medical information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.
• Participates in the formulation, review and or revision of departmental policies.
• Proactively participates in performance improvement initiatives to continuously improve the quality of patient care.
• Uses hospital resources effectively in providing patient care.
• Fulfills other duties as assigned within the RN scope of practice.

Qualifications

• Education: Internal & 1199 SEIU Graduate of accredited nursing program(s). Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred. Non 1199 SEIU Candidates Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or equivalent to BSN program. Master's degree in Nursing, preferred.
• Experience: Minimum two (2) years' Telemetry experience required. Minimum one (1) year Critical Care nursing or equivalent experience preferred.
• Licenses, Certifications: Current NY State RN License required. Basic Life Support (BLS) required. Advanced Cardiovascular (ACLS) required. CCRN (required within one (1) year of hire). Basic Arrhythmia Class with Certificate required. Stroke Certification required. Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) required.