TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified Med/Surg / Tele RN in Richmond, Kentucky, 40475!
Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN)
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Tele Float Pool RN
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Third Shift
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: No experience required
License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state
Certifications: BLS
Must-Have:
- ADN or ASN required
- Accepts responsibility for actions and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations
- Practices effective, clear, and respectful communication (both verbal and written)
- Collaborates and cooperates with all coworkers, valuing differences
- Greets all internal and external customers warmly and professionally
- Shows understanding of computer systems and applications or willingness to be trained
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with other care team members
- Ability to assess patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices
Description:
The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person.
Focus is on creating a caring environment that promotes healing and wellness.
Nursing practices are based on evidence, research, hospital policies, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.
Clinical decision-making includes critical thinking, creativity, and all four phases of the nursing process.
Nursing excellence is promoted through relationships among nursing staff and across disciplines.
Coordinates, ensures, and provides direct patient care activities on the unit.
Includes provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
Facilitates admission, transfer, and discharge activities.
Provides patient and family-centered education, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning.
Performs and documents comprehensive assessments according to RN scope of practice and hospital policies.
Considers patients' culture, age, and developmental level during assessments.
Identifies patient risk factors and collects both objective and subjective data.
Develops a prioritized problem list based on input from the inter-professional team.
Designs actions and interventions relevant to patients' culture and age.
Determines desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family.
Fully implements patient care therapies and procedures within established policies and guidelines.
Explains procedures and treatments to patients and families.
Takes action to alleviate patient stress and discomfort.
Recognizes and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.
Conducts ongoing assessments and documents responses to procedures and therapies.
Delegates tasks appropriately and oversees team members in patient care activities.
Monitors the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care.
Identifies and addresses educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems.
Facilitates the patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner.
Provides input into patient/nurse assignments considering staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity.
Demonstrates active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values.
Promotes a positive group dynamic and healing environment.
Assures nursing excellence according to accepted standards and evidence-based practice.
Actively participates in department and unit quality improvement activities.
Uses a holistic perspective regarding patient care.