Essential Responsibilities:

• Takes nursing histories to provide a basis for developing patient care plans.
• Completes a thorough nursing assessment and history on admission.
• Identifies teaching/learning/discharge needs at time of admission and throughout hospitalization.
• Provides an ongoing assessment which accurately reflects physiological and psychosocial needs of the patients.
• Consistently uses input from patient, family, significant other, physician and healthcare team members.
• Provides care appropriate for the neonate and the pediatric, adolescent and geriatric patients served based on demonstrated knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Assesses and interprets data on neonate and the pediatric, adolescent and geriatric patients’ status to identify patients’ requirements relative to their age-specific needs and provides care needed as stipulated in departmental policy.
• Identifies expected outcome for planned nursing intervention and ensure vital information is passed between shifts.
• Administers medications according to policy including IV’s, blood, and blood components as prescribed by physicians.
• Knows actions, indications, contraindication, precautions, adverse reactions, dosage and route of administration on all drugs before administering to patient.
• Verifies medication administration accuracy and performs the required checks on the medication administration record.
• Gives exchange report to other health care personnel providing accurate and complete information on each patient at the change of shift, when transferring patient to another unit, and at intervals during the shift.
• Assesses patients at the beginning of shift for acuity of patient needs/problems and establishes priority in which work activities are consistently completed by the end of the shift.
• Performs basic nursing skills competently.
• Recognizes, evaluates and interviews appropriately in a life-threatening situation.
• Recognizes variance of diagnostic tests, vital signs and assessments that should be reported to the physician and notifies physician in a time frame appropriate to the variance.
• Functions proficiently in unit nursing modalities.
• Develops and implements an individualized teaching and discharge plan at admission and throughout hospitalization.
• Plans, assesses, directs and participates in the delivery of emergency room nursing care.
• Plans, assesses, directs and participates in the delivery of intensive care nursing care.
• Plans, assesses, direct and participates in the delivery of obstetrics nursing care.
• Plans, assesses, directs and participates in the care of neonatal nursing care.
• Plans, assesses, directs and participates in the delivery of medical- surgical nursing care.

Experience

• 1 year(s): prior work experience as a professional Registered Nurse

Education

• Bachelors or better in Nursing
• Associates or better in Nursing

Licenses & Certifications

• (RN) Registered Nurse

Skills

• MediTech Literacy
• Multi-tasking
• Medical Terminology
• Interpersonal Skills
• Bilingual

Behaviors

• Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization