RN ICU

Responsibilities

• Guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics.
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.
• Records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
• Establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, which may include administering medication, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing IV lines, administering therapies and treatments, observing the patient, and recording observations.
• Teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explains post-treatment and home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and therapy.
• Provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegates when appropriate.
• Supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills.
• Precepts new hire staff and students.
• Aids staff and students to seek and complete the tasks required to complete their competency skills.
• Enhances knowledge in the nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• May continue to improve the patients care plan to enhance patient outcomes.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, documents observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
• Provides ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes.
• Documents nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintains current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional and state levels.
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and other health care providers through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs.
• Collaborates with the patient, family and other health care providers in providing patient care.
• Develops and evaluates standards of care for patients that are evidence-based.
• Identifies changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitates the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change.
• Participates in and uses evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice, and patient outcomes.
• Designs, creates, and applies research by supporting the integration of research into practice fostering the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Requirements

• Prior to start, all staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements.
• Required Associates or Diploma in Nursing.
• Required 1 year RN experience for all Float Positions.
• Required Basic Life Support (BLS) - Certification.
• Required Registered Nurse (RN) - License State And/or Compact State Licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Arizona.
• Required National certification for unit specific patient population.

Qualifications

• All Diploma and ADN hires must Complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience (including direct patient care or indirect RN roles) at the time of hire.