RN Observation - FT Days

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, enhances knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions, and continues to improve the patients care plan.
• Enhances knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations, collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development, assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates patient care delivery, interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and other health care providers, and collaborates with the patient, family, and other health care providers in providing patient care.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery, develops and evaluates standards of care for patients that are evidence-based, identifies changes that should be made in nursing practice, uses evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes, designs, creates, and applies research, and 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

• Prior to start, staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements.
• Education: All 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 Associates or Diploma in Nursing. All staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements - PRIOR TO START Required Bachelors in nursing (BSN).
• Licenses: Required Registered Nurse (RN) - License State And/or Compact State Licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Arizona Upon Hire Required National certification for unit specific patient population.