Travel OR RN - $2,736 per week

About the role

Registered Nurse (RN) Surgical Suite position available for a 13-week travel nursing assignment in Boston, Massachusetts. Utilizing the nursing process, responsibility for providing for immediate and long-term nursing care needs of patients within the standards of the department, hospital and regulatory agencies.

Responsibilities

• Accurately assesses patients' needs
• Utilizes multiple data sources to determine actual/potential health problems and functional status
• Utilizes Recovery Oriented Framework to identify patient strengths
• Performs point of care testing
• Communicates findings effectively to members of the healthcare team
• Documentation reflects response to intervention, demonstrates an understanding of patients' response to treatment interventions
• Identifies patient behaviors that contribute to the development of a crisis; utilizes non-verbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate crisis situation
• Accurately plans nursing interventions for assigned patients
• Modifies and individualizes Nursing Plan of Care and protocols
• Participates in the development of the multidisciplinary treatment plan
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize patient care needs
• Partners with patients/families to support recovery goals
• Provides and implements nursing care interventions
• Establishes a therapeutic alliance with assigned patients
• Demonstrates safe, accurate and timely medication administration using BMV scanning
• Reviews physician orders in a timely manner
• Promotes interventions that provide the least-restrictive alternatives and recovery oriented goals
• Participates in leading patient groups
• Accurately evaluates the effectiveness of nursing care interventions
• Documentation on the Nursing Plan of Care, protocols, and Assessment Flowsheet reflects response to intervention, demonstrates an understanding of patients' response to treatment interventions
• Accurately communicates patients' clinical status at clinical team rounds and change of shift reports
• Utilizes evidence based nursing knowledge to guide practice decisions
• Provides a leadership role in organizing and providing patient care
• Provides direction and supervision of MHSs
• Delegate care interventions
• Assumes a leadership role in medical and psychiatric emergencies
• Promotes/provides for critical incident de-briefing following emergency event

Schedule

• 13 weeks duration
• 40 hours per week
• 10 hour shifts, days