RN L&D

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 consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.
• 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.
• Supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precepts new hire staff and students, assists staff and students to seek and complete competency skills, and continues to enhance knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• May continue to improve the patients’ care plan, evaluates patient progress, documents observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data, and enhances knowledge in culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
• Evaluates one’s own 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.
• Collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional, and state levels, fosters peer relationships, participates in preceptor and/or mentor programs, and creates an environment for quality practice.
• 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, fosters 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

• 1+ years of L&D experience.
• Sign On Bonus available up to 10k.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Required and Associates or Diploma in Nursing.
• Preferred and Bachelors in nursing (BSN).

Skills

• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.
• Ability to record patients' medical history and symptoms, perform diagnostic tests, operate medical equipment, administer treatment and medications, and provide patient care.
• Ability to establish and implement care plans, teach patients and their families, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and evaluate patient progress.
• Ability to document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data.
• Ability to evaluate one’s own nursing practice and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Ability to collaborate with others in the practice of nursing professional development and foster peer relationships.
• Ability to consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care.

Benefits

• Warmth and neighborly kindness.
• Great care starts with great people.

Pay

• Negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

• Night shift.