RN - Med-Surg./Inpatient - PRN NIGHTS - AVALA Hospital - RH457

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains patient care, including diet and physical activities.
• Communicates with physicians, co-workers, and patients as needed.
• Prepares patients for examinations and treatments.
• Performs head-to-toe assessments and reassessments as required.
• Adequately assesses and interprets pain, educates patients on pain management.
• Performs waived testing, draws blood, and interprets lab results.
• Makes decisions based on patient data and identifies care needs.
• Administers medications safely, manages central and PICC lines, performs CPR.
• Keeps patient records updated and documents treatments.
• Assists with emergency nursing procedures and patient advocacy.
• Ensures patient safety and follows departmental protocols.
• Collaborates with other departments and staff.
• Updates census tables, verifies temperature logs, oversees dietary services.
• Follows emergency response and transfer protocols.
• Supervises staff and ensures patient assignments and room assignments.

Core Competencies

• Action Orientation: Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, establishes standards, and follows through on actions.
• Communications: Communicates well verbally and in writing, listens carefully, and presents ideas clearly.
• Creativity/Innovation: Generates novel ideas and improves systems.
• Critical Judgment: Defines issues and focuses on achieving solutions.
• Customer Orientation: Listens to customers, builds confidence, and meets commitments.
• Interpersonal Skills: Engages effectively and builds trust, credibility, and confidence.
• Leadership: Motivates, empowers, inspires, and collaborates with others.
• Teamwork: Builds high-performance teams and resolves conflicts.

Professional Requirements

• Maintains dress code and completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements and patient confidentiality.
• Reports to work on time, completes work within designated time, wears identification, and uses punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and attends staff meetings.
• Complies with organizational policies and represents the organization positively.
• Participates in performance improvement and CQI activities.
• Communicates the hospital's mission, ethics, and goals.
• Shares knowledge and directs staff to resources.
• Assists other staff members in delivering patient care.

Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Certification Requirements

• Four (4) hours of education specific to the Program scope initially and annually thereafter.
• Adaptability to processes, collaboration, compliance, communication, and exceptional customer service.
• Orientation and education requirements within 90 days of hire or signing the job description.

Regulatory Requirements

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
• Current state Registered Nurse Licensure.
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications.
• PALS certification recommended.

Skills

• Effective communication in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

Physical Demands

• Regularly talks and hears.
• Very active, requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day.
• Frequently lifts or moves items weighing up to 50 pounds.