RN-Critical Care

JOB SUMMARY Provides total patient care for the pre, intra and post-procedural patient in accordance with physicians orders and individual patient needs in conformance with the recognized standards of nursing practice.

DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Performs patient safety initiatives, while performing various roles such as scrubbing and circulating, throughout the procedural process.

Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:

• Assesses patient and/or conducts screenings and documents utilizing standard scales when indicated as required per organization.
• Documents changes in patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care/intervention.
• Utilizes organization-wide safe medication practices including, but not limited to the 5 rights of medication administration, barcode scanning and other medication safety processes specific to the unit/department.
• Knows actions and usual dosage, indications and side effects of medications administered.
• Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant other as needed according to the care, treatment services and identified risks specific to the patient and documents patient and/or family understanding.

EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS Minimum requirement:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing for Registered Nurses.
• Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any other states as applicable.
• Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of start.
• Achieves and maintains AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 days of start.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Constantly works near moving mechanical parts.
• Constantly exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
• Frequently required to walk and move about.
• Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
• Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
• Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.