This position is PRN, requiring a minimum of 1 shift per month.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides direct patient care, evaluation outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care.
• Ability to perform a heat-to-toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy. This includes pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients and the general patient population.
• Uses triage process to ensure timely and appropriate care to patients.
• Accurately assigns triage categories.
• Ability to adequately assess and reassess pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management.
• Ability to monitor hemodynamic status of patient and correctly interpret the results.
• Demonstrates knowledge of cardiac monitoring, identifies dysrhythmias, and treats appropriately.
• Ability to perform waived testing per Clinical Laboratory’s and the patient care unit’s policies and procedures.
• Ability to interpret the results of waived tests; takes appropriate action on waived test results.
• Maintains current knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on age of the patient and his/her clinical condition.
• Follows the seven medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors.
• Prepares, and monitors and discontinues IV fluids.
• Maintains accurate and continued nursing documentation including patient histories, conditions, treatments, responses, and assessment of changes.
• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.
• Treats patients and their families with respect and dignity. Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and religious/spiritual needs of patients and family. Functions as liaison between administration, patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and the skills necessary to provide age-appropriate care to the patients served.
• Able to interpret data about the patient’s status to identify each patient’s age specific needs and provide care needed by the patient group.
• Demonstrates Competency in the Following Areas:
• Interacts professionally with patient and family and involves patient and family in the formation of the plan of care.
• Formulates a teaching plan based on identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning; includes family in teaching, as appropriate.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, performance improvement program, safety, environmental and infection prevention, and control standards.
• Maintains a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients and families in accordance with hospital standards.
• Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and proper functioning of equipment.
• Cooperates with other staff to achieve departmental objectives, maintain food employee relations and interdepartmental objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to assist physicians with procedures in the Emergency Department.
• Leads one or more employees performing similar work; supervises temporary employees and employees who do not supervise; trains new employees; allocates and monitors work of others.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings and workshops; shows responsibility for own professional practice and ongoing educations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
• Professional Requirements:
• Adheres to dress code appearance is neat and clean.
• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review and department in services as scheduled.
• Attends staff meetings, reads, and returns all monthly staff meeting minutes.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner in the community.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the facility as well as the focus statement of the department.

Experience

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

Education

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

Licenses & Certifications

• (RN) Registered Nurse

Skills

• Multi-tasking
• MediTech Literacy
• Medical Terminology
• Communication Skills

Behaviors

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• 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