TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified ER/Trauma RN in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 42701!
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Emergency Department
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Second Shift
Hours per Shift: 8
Experience: No experience required
License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state
Certifications: BLS
Must-Have:
- Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
- Practices effective, clear, and respectful communication (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language.
- Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all coworkers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly, while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team.
- Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary.
- Shows understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications or ability to be trained.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with other care team members.
- Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients.
Description:
The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.
Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.
Clinical decision-making incorporates all phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity.
Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.
Responsibilities include:
- Assessment of patients' needs and performing comprehensive assessments in accordance with RN's scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures.
- Considering the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level.
- Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints.
- Obtaining patient health information from family or others as necessary.
- Collecting objective/quantitative and subjective/qualitative data.
- Verifying initial admission assessments, if obtained by other members of the healthcare team.
- Developing a problem list and prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate.
- Designing actions and interventions relevant to the patient's culture and age.
- Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family in accordance with the medical plan of care.
- Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies, procedures, professional guidelines, culture, and age of patients served.
- Explaining procedures, treatments, and processes to patient and family.
- Initiating action to alleviate patient stress and discomfort.
- Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient condition appropriately.
- Conducting and documenting ongoing assessments and responses to procedures and therapies using the nursing process according to hospital policy, established standards, culture, and age of patients served.
- Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care.
- Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members in the implementation of the plan of care.
- Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to level of comprehension.
- Facilitating the patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner, identifying potential discharges, assuring the performance of discharge teaching, and coordination of the plan with Case Management and others as indicated.
- Providing input into patient/nurse assignments in consideration of available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity.
- Demonstrating active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values/priorities.
- Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions.
- Assuring nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence-based practice, current research, and a caring philosophy.
- Actively participating in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures such as patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTIs, auditing, and monitoring of documentation.
- Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care.