| Location | Phoenix, AZ |
Position Details
Department: PCH-MAIN | Hire-Ahead Staffing Center
Location: Phoenix
Shift: Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun, (Days Vary), Days, 7am-7:30pm
Category: Nursing
Posting #: 1061554
Employee Type: Full-Time
Position Summary
This position works in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient, and family to promote patient health through supervision of delivery of professional nursing care with a clinical nurse that is appropriate to patient's age and condition as documented in the nursing and medical plans of care in accordance with evidence-based nursing and patient care practice standards and hospital goals, values, and regulatory standards.
Position Duties
Completes supervised nursing assessment of patient conditions consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine initial level of compliance with treatment plan per policy and unit guidelines. Performs supervised ongoing patient and family assessments and identifies variations from diagnoses.
Continually evaluates patient responses to care, teaching, and discharge plans. Documents patient progress in appropriate charts and shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team and families to ensure timely communication and understanding of patient health status, progress, and ongoing needs.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage and documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.
Provides orientation to the unit, hospital systems, and processes to patients and family members to ensure familiarity with unit's policies and requirements.
Collaborates with the clinical nurse in supervising patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Participates in providing timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members' performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
Works collaboratively with supervising clinical nurse, patient care team, and family members to establish and implement plan of care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status. Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.
Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.