RN Trauma Care Unit

Deer Valley - 19829 N 27th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85027 | Night shift | Sign-on bonus available | 1+ years experience required

About the role

At HonorHealth, you’ll find something special. From humble beginnings in 1927 to one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, our culture is built on warmth and neighborly kindness. Behind every smile is a highly skilled professional with deep expertise and an unwavering dedication to caring for the health and well-being of people and communities across the greater Phoenix area.

The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.

Responsibilities

• Record patients' medical history and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical equipment, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
• Establish a care plan or contribute to an existing plan, including:
  • Administering medication, including careful checking of dosages and avoiding interactions.
  • Starting, maintaining, and discontinuing intravenous (IV) lines for fluid, medication, blood, and blood products.
  • Administering therapies and treatments.
  • Observing the patient and recording those observations.
  • Consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.
• Teach patients and their families how to manage illnesses or injuries, explain post-treatment and home care needs, including:
  • Diet, nutrition, and exercise programs.
  • Self-administration of medication and therapy.
• Provide direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegate when appropriate.
• Support efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills.
• Precept new hire staff and students, assisting them to seek and complete tasks required to complete competency skills.
• Enhance knowledge in the nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• Collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs, involving the family.
• Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilize the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
• Develop plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, providing for continuity of care, and family-centered.
• Implement interventions in the plan of care, initiating treatments, medications, emergency, and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies, and procedures.
• Provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery.
• Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure maintenance and enhancement of patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost-effective, high-quality healthcare.
• Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies, maintaining current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice.
• Enhance knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
• Collaborate with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional, and state levels.
• Interact with and contribute to the professional development of peers and other healthcare providers through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs to create an environment for quality practice.
• Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery.
• Collaborate with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers in providing patient care.
• Develop and evaluate standards of care for patients that are evidence-based.
• Identify changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitate the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change.
• Participate in and use evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Design, create, and apply research by supporting the integration of research into practice, fostering the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data.
• Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Requirements

• 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.
• Associates or Diploma in Nursing (required).
• Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) (preferred).
• All staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients must meet stroke-specific education requirements prior to start.
• More than 10 months of med-surg or acute specialty setting experience (required).
• 1 year RN experience for all Float Positions (required).

Qualifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (required).
• Registered Nurse (RN) license: State and/or Compact State Licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Arizona (required upon hire).
• National certification for unit-specific patient population (preferred).

Benefits

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