RN ICU

Responsibilities

• Guided by ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures
• Records patients' medical history and symptoms, performs diagnostic tests, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation
• Establishes and contributes to a care plan that includes administering medication, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing IV lines, administering therapies and treatments, observing patients, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians
• Teaches patients and their families about managing illnesses or injuries, explaining 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 in completing competency skills
• Enhances knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required
• Practices theory-based nursing that is evidence-based utilizing a Shared Governance model for decision-making
• Has knowledge of stroke symptoms and warning signs, protocols and pathways, stroke center resources, and educational materials

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) - Preferred
• Diploma or Associate's degree in Nursing
• Experience: >10 months med-surg or acute specialty setting, 1 year RN experience for all Float Positions
• Licenses and Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, State And/or Compact State Licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Arizona, National certification for unit specific patient population

Qualifications

• Knowledge of how to collect health data systematically and prioritize data collection
• Analyzes assessment data to determine diagnoses and develop a patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant
• Develops plans of care individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, providing for continuity of care, and family centered
• Implements interventions in the plan of care, initiates treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures, and provides nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery
• Evaluates 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
• Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost-effective high-quality healthcare
• Enhances knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations
• 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