RN OR Days Full Time

About the role

The Registered Nurse (RN) performs the functions of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care for the assigned patients on the unit during a shift. The RN is responsible for meeting the Standards of Practice, which includes managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment on the unit, and for the promoting collaboration with all members of the health care team. The individual demonstrates personal and professional responsibility, participates in creating an atmosphere of teamwork and coordination and assumes responsibility for their own professional development.

Responsibilities

• Care Assessment: Conducts a thorough admission interview and systematic physical assessment. Collects and interprets all appropriate patient data and reviews pertinent findings with anesthesia. Assesses the need for services of other health care professionals to facilitate the delivery of care.
• Planning: Develops a written plan of care that utilizes the data collected in the assessment process, incorporates the medical plan of care, demonstrates knowledge of resources available, sets priorities and establishes realistic outcomes and discharge planning.
• Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a safe therapeutic patient care regimen, recognizing the dynamics of changes that may occur and adjusting the plan of care to accommodate organizational changes. Demonstrates an understanding of medication administration, equipment use, and troubleshooting.
• Evaluation: Reviews the effectiveness of a patient plan of care, based on patient progress, changing clinical status, and appropriateness of expected outcomes. Adjusts the plan or expected outcomes as necessary.
• Patient Safety: Complies with surgical site verification and time out policies. Reviews the planned procedure and verifies the surgical consent with the patient. Verifies surgeon privileges and the need for surgical assistants. Verifies all equipment is functioning and inspects for safety prior to use. Monitors the sterile field for any breaks or potential breaks in sterility.
• Documentation: Reflects the changes in patient condition, care given, and response to care given. Documents on admission assessment, nursing care plan, flow sheets, medication administration record, and nurses notes all pertinent information, in a manner that is concise, thorough, legible, and accurately reflects patient condition, care provided, response to care, and conforms to JHMH policy and procedure on charting.

Qualifications

• Disease Process, Medications and Treatments: Demonstrates advanced knowledge of disease processes, medications, and treatments through sound nursing practice and appropriate use of resources independently.
• Professional Knowledge Growth: Actively pursues appropriate continuing education and certifications. Attends and actively participates in unit in-services, patient conferences, and/or workshops annually. Attends mandated in-services. Applies acquired knowledge in patient care practice. Maintains up-to-date CPR, safety training, and TB testing. Completes annual/critical competencies identified for assigned department. Demonstrates awareness of changes and advances in field. Takes responsibility for determining learning needs and seeks out opportunities for such.
• Leadership/Credibility: Performs charge duties effectively and independently, when applicable. Makes decisions and solves problems using decisiveness and judgment, and demonstrates effectiveness of decisions. Effectively handles crisis situations. Effectively distinguishes between activities and results; recognizes outcomes. Demonstrates technical skills and knowledge in routine situations and serves as a resource person to support staff, patients, and families. Demonstrates knowledge and technical skills in difficult situations and assists peers, other health care professionals, patients, and family.
• Communication: Performs duties with minimal personnel or patient conflict documented. Enhances hospital image internally and externally. Initiates problem-solving of interdepartmental issues. Reports accurate, thorough, and timely in reporting patient condition to peers, charge nurse, daily nursing supervisor (if applicable), and other health care professionals involved in patient care using Hand Off communication that includes: patient, assessment, situation, and safety.

Skills

• Current Alabama or Multi-State RN License required.
• BLS required.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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Additional Information

This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000.00***.