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.
• Administer medications accurately and timely according to physician orders and organizational policy and procedure.
• Maintain 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.
• Communicate clearly and concisely.
• Provide clear, specific educational and discharge information to each patient and/or patient family member.
• 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).