TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified ICU/Critical Care RN in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 42701!
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Critical Care
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 3x12 Third Shift
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: Minimum 0 years’ experience; Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and/or Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) experience required
License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state
Certifications: BLS required
Must-Have:
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and/or Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) experience
Description:
The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person.
The focus is on creating a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.
Nursing practices are based on evidence, current research, and regulatory standards.
Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity.
Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.
The RN coordinates, ensures, and provides direct patient care activities on the unit.
This includes provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities is also required.
The RN provides patient and family-centered education.
Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable are important functions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Performing and documenting a comprehensive assessment in accordance with the RN’s scope of practice and hospital policies.
- Considering the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level.
- Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints.
- Collecting objective and subjective health information.
- Verifying initial admission assessments if obtained by other healthcare team members.
- Developing a prioritized problem list based on input from the inter-professional team.
- Designing actions and interventions relevant to the patient’s context.
- Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family.
- Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures within the scope of practice.
- Explaining procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families.
- Initiating actions to alleviate patient stress and discomfort.
- Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient conditions.
- Conducting and documenting ongoing assessments and responses to therapies.
- Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in patient care.
- Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated care.
- Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients.
- Facilitating the discharge process and ensuring timely execution of discharge orders.
- Providing input into patient/nurse assignments considering staffing and patient acuity.
- Actively participating in unit activities that support organizational values.
- Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through actions.
- Assuring nursing excellence according to accepted standards and evidence-based practices.
- Actively participating in department and unit quality improvement activities.
- Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care.