Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Critical Care Float Pool
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Nights
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: 0 - 6 months of related experience
License: Valid multi-state or State Registered Nurse License
Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
Must-Have:
1 year of experience
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
BLS certified through AHA
Description:
The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care utilizing the nursing process.
This is in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.
Utilizes the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.
Completes assessments and individualizes plans of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
Carries out nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients.
Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
Anticipates patient/unit needs.
Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.
Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.
Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.
Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.
Utilizes correct medical terminology and abbreviations.
Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
Facilitates patient teaching and discharge.
Makes timely and 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 performance improvement and educational activities.
Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.
Accurately completes variance reports.
Employs independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making decisions in a complex field.
Works directly with patients and/or customers.
Engages with internal and external customers.
Interacts with other healthcare professionals and staff.