RN - Critical Care

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY!!

This is an urban neighborhood with a heavy load for ED and Critical Care. The facilities are 911 receiving, so please make sure you are able to handle a high-energy, high-turnover, high-need facility—that comes with a multitude of personalities.

Required Skills & Experience:
-2+ years of Critical Care nursing experience preferred.
-Ability to communicate effectively in English both verbally and in writing.

Required Education:
-Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.

Preferred Education:
-Master's Degree in Nursing, preferred.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
-New York State RN License.
-ACLS and BLS required.

Job Summary:
-The Registered Professional Nurse is responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating all nursing care as defined by The New York State Nursing Practice Act.
-Comprehensive Critical care nursing focuses on assisting the critically ill patient to achieve his/her optimum health potential. This is achieved within the framework of the nursing process.
-The activities are carried out in collaboration with the care providers and other members of the healthcare team in response to patient and family needs.
-The Critical Care Registered Professional Nurse is responsible for care delivery and renders services to ICU and /or telemetry patients ranging from 18 years and older.

Duties and Responsibilities:
-In accordance with professional nursing standards and practices, the Critical Care nurse will provide nursing care to all critical care/telemetry patients with medical and surgical diagnoses. Critical care nurse responds to code blue and medical alerts as assigned.

Assessment:
-Assesses patient's physical, social, behavioral, and mental status through direct observation, interview, and medical record review.
-Includes assessment from history and data collection as obtained from the patient and/or care providers.
-Determines mobility, sensory deficits, prostheses use, and skin condition and adjusts plan of care as appropriate.
-Documents a nursing assessment to include psychosocial, environmental factors, educational level, and needs.
-Obtains and reviews available data base and any data collected by other members of the health team (medical/surgical/other history, physical exam mental status, therapist reports, physician, and community referrals).
-Identifies medical problems resulting from psychological /mental illness and use of medications.
-Communicates findings with other members of the health team. (Social Worker, Case managers, therapist, physician).

Planning:
-Identifies and addresses needs for admission based on acute medical/surgical diagnoses and presenting physical/psychological symptoms.
-Identifies and addresses patient level of education and learning needs.
-Makes appropriate referral to other disciplines and documents same.

Intervention/Implementation:
-Management of clinical skills in the provision of nursing care and management of the patient including but not limited to:
-Identification of symptoms.
-Management of the disease entity.
-Treatment modalities.
-Administration of medications.
-Intervenes appropriately in medical/surgical and critical emergencies utilizing crisis intervention.
-Utilities critical thinking in assessment of patients and in interventions.
-Utilizes infection control procedures and protocols.
-Provides for psychosocial needs of all critically ill patients.
-Provides health teaching and medication instructions to patient/next of kin.
-Ensures that all procedures are performed based on established standards of care.
-Demonstrates competency in performing all procedures within the scope of practice and in accordance with Interfaith Medical Center.
-Investigates and communicates all required information regarding unusual occurrences and patient care incidents.
-Acts as a patient advocate.

Evaluation:
-Revises the patient's plan of care based on evaluation of interventions and expected outcomes in collaboration with other members of the health care team.

Physical Demands:
-Involves standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, and bending.
-May include some repetitive motions.
-Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care.