Travel Nurse RN - Progressive Care Unit - $2,203 per week in Elizabethtown, KY

Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: RN Duration: 13 weeks Shift: 3x12 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: - Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations. - Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary.

Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: RN Duration: 13 weeks Shift: 3x12 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: - Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations. - Practices effective, clear, and respectful communications (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language. - Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly, while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team. - Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary. - Shows an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications and/or ability to be trained. - Ability to communicate/collaborate with other care team members. - Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients. Description: The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person. A caring environment focused on healing and wellness is created. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. 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. Coordinates, ensures, and provides direct patient care activities on the unit, including provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments. Facilitates admission, transfer, and discharge activities. The provision of patient and family-centered education is essential. Care coordination and individualized treatment planning are crucial. Responsibilities include: - Assessment of patient needs by performing and documenting a comprehensive assessment in accordance with RN scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures. - Considering the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level. - Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints. - Obtaining patient health information from family or others as necessary. - Collecting objective/quantitative and subjective/qualitative data. - Verifying initial admission assessment, if obtained by other members of the healthcare team. - Developing a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate. - Designing actions and interventions relevant to the patient’s culture and age. - Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family in accordance with the medical plan of care. - Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies, procedures, professional guidelines, culture, and age of the patient served. - Explaining procedures, treatments, and processes to the patient and family. - Initiating action to alleviate patient stress and discomfort. - Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient condition appropriately. - Conducting and documenting ongoing assessment and response to procedures and therapies using the nursing process according to hospital policy, established standards, culture, and age of patient served. - Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care. - Monitoring accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members in the implementation of the plan of care. - Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to level of comprehension. - Facilitating patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner, identifying potential discharges, assuring the performance of discharge teaching, and coordinating the plan with Case Management and others as indicated. - Providing input into patient/nurse assignments in consideration of available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity. - Demonstrating active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values/priorities. - Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions. - Assuring nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence-based practice, current research, and caring philosophy. - Actively participating in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures, such as patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTIs, auditing, and monitoring of documentation. - Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care.