RN / REGISTERED NURSE - MED/SURG TELEMETRY - ROTATING - PRN

Responsibilities

• Facilitates, implements, and evaluates the patient Plan of Care to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Provides timely and appropriate nursing interventions based on patient needs and clinical priorities.
• Demonstrates strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, and technical competence in delivering patient care.
• Affords prompt assessment, analysis, and communication of patient condition changes and relevant clinical information to the healthcare team.
• Serves as a patient advocate, ensuring patient needs, preferences, and safety concerns are addressed.
• Collaborates effectively with physicians, interdisciplinary team members, patients, and families to promote positive patient outcomes.
• Communicates clearly and professionally with providers regarding patient status, orders, and responses to treatment.
• Identifies patient safety risk factors and initiates appropriate interventions related to fall prevention, skin integrity, restraint use, and other safety concerns.
• Follows medication safety policies and procedures to ensure safe administration practices.
• Promptly initiates interventions to address identified safety needs.
• Completes required Safety Tracking Tools accurately and timely.
• Accurately and promptly documents patient assessments, interventions, responses to care, and provider communications in the medical record.
• Ensures documentation meets regulatory, legal, and organizational standards.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises assigned staff and assumes accountability for all care provided to assigned patients.
• Maintains monitoring of team performance and reports performance issues to leadership to ensure safe and effective patient care.
• Assesses the educational needs of patients and families.
• Provides appropriate verbal and written education tailored to patient needs and comprehension levels.
• Documents education provided and patient understanding.
• Reviews, initiates, and implements provider orders accurately and in a timely manner each shift.
• Ensures continuity and coordination of care throughout the shift.
• Effectively prioritizes responsibilities based on urgency, patient needs, and available resources.
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving, multitasking, and time-management skills.
• Functions independently while seeking appropriate resources when necessary.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year as a nurse
• ACLS preferred at hire or within 90 days of hire
• EPIC preferred
• RN - Registered Nurse
• BLS - Basic Life Saving certification
• NIH - Stroke Certification

Pay

Entry USD $36.20/Hr. Max USD $59.73/Hr.