RN Maternity Float Pool

Job Responsibilities

• Create and implement a written plan of care addressing the specific needs and goals of each individual patient.
• Modify the plan of care based on reassessment of the patient, including observed patient response to treatment/care and evaluation of patient's progress toward goal completion.
• Delegate tasks to team members as appropriate within their scope of practice.
• Observe, document, address, and implement planned interventions/care, communicating the plan to all members of the team through accurate and timely documentation in the electronic medical record and, when needed, through verbal reports.
• Document accurate patient information in compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Perform selective procedures such as IV starts and restarts, blood administration, and phlebotomy tasks, and serve as testing personnel under CLIA1988 regulations related to point of care testing.
• Administer medications accurately and timely according to physician orders and organizational policy and procedure, maintaining knowledge of medication actions and side effects, recognizing allergic reactions, and documenting patients' response to drugs.
• Successfully transition patients, communicating the most current plan of care through walking rounds and providing accurate, timely reports to incoming staff.
• Advise physicians, other disciplines, family/significant others of changes in patient's condition or abnormal findings, communicating clearly and concisely.
• Provide clear, specific educational and discharge information to each patient and/or patient family member.
• Maintain knowledge of medication actions and side effects, recognizing allergic reactions, and documenting patients’ response to drugs.
• May precept new employees and oversee other members of the care team.

Education Requirements

• Minimum: Graduate from an accredited school of nursing by date of hire to the position.
• PREFERRED: Bachelor of or Science in Nursing.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum: None.
• PREFERRED: One (1) year as a Registered Nurse in a hospital setting.

License/Certification Requirements

• Minimum: RN license in the state of Indiana by date of hire to the position.
• PREFERRED: ACLS (American Heart Association), BLS (American Heart Association), NRPS.T.A.B.L.E. for Nursery staff, Basic Telemetry (management discretion).