Travel Nurse RN - Ambulatory Care - $2,825 per week

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions is seeking a travel nurse RN Ambulatory Care for a travel nursing job in Sanford, Maine.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Ambulatory Care
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 12 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

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• Provides patient care based on wound, ostomy and continence nursing guidelines, and applicable standards of care.
• Serves as a liaison for wound, ostomy and continence care concerns. Provides education to team members and participates in assigned committees.
• Assesses the physical, psychological, and social needs of assigned patients, and initiates data collection and assessment on assigned patients.
• Contributes to development of the plan of care for each assigned patient, using appropriate resources in collaboration with interdisciplinary care team.
• Initiates and implements nursing interventions, medical orders, and other related therapies.
• Collaborates with healthcare team to educate patient and support system.
• Analyzes, modifies, and implements strategies to progress the patient through their plan of care.
• Documents a patient record that is reflective of all patient care provided and the patient's response to the care given in accordance with professional standards.
• Monitors equipment and performs routine and complex treatments including ostomy care,
• wound care with draining of wounds and fistulas, percutaneous tubes and fecal and urinary incontinence care.
• Complies with mandatory reporting, legal consent, transfer protocols, and other requirements that preserve patient rights and ensure appropriateness of care.
• Provides a clean, safe, and secure environment for patients and others by following safety policies and procedures.
• May handle biomedical, pharmaceutical, hazardous and universal wastes per regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards. Understands and if assigned,
• demonstrates the ability to safety handle hazardous drugs which may include receipt, storage, compound, repackaging, dispensing, transporting and/or disposing of hazardous drugs.