Job Summary:
The individual assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.
Job Responsibilities:
- Utilizes the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.
- Completes assessment and individualizes plan of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
- Considers cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients in nursing care.
- Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
- Anticipates patient and unit needs.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.
- Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.
- Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient and unit situations.
- Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.
- Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.
- Utilizes correct medical terminology abbreviations.
- Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
- Facilitates patient teaching discharge.
- Makes timely, appropriate referrals.
- Utilizes resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
- Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.
- Supports unit and hospital goals through PI and educational activities.
- Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.
- Accurately completes variance reports.
- Decision Making: Independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
- Working Relationship: Works directly with patients and/or customers.
- Works with internal and external customers.
- Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
- Working knowledge of disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
- Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
- Detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.
Required Education:
- Completion of basic professional curriculum of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.
Required Certification & Licensure:
- Valid multi-state or State Registered Nurse License.
Shift: Acute Care, minimum 1 year experience, willingness to float to other departments
Start: ER experience