Travel Nurse RN - Med/Surg / Telemetry - $2,074 per week in Elizabethtown, KY

Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: RN Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Third 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 communications (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language. Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, 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 an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications and/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 department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments. Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities. Providing patient and family-centered education. Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable. Key Responsibilities: Performs and documents a comprehensive assessment in accordance with RN scope of practice and policies and procedures. Considers the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level. Identifies patient risk factors and presenting complaints. Obtains patient health information from family or others as necessary. Collects objective and subjective data. Verifies initial admission assessment if obtained by other members of the healthcare team. Develops a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate. Designs actions and interventions relevant to patient’s culture and age. Determines desired outcomes in coordination with patient and family in accordance with the medical plan of care. Fully implements patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies, procedures, and professional guidelines. Explains procedures, treatments, and processes to patient and family. Initiates actions to alleviate patient’s stress and discomfort. Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately. Conducts and documents ongoing assessment and response to procedures and therapies using nursing process according to hospital policy and established standards. Delegates tasks appropriately and oversees team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care. Monitors accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members in implementation of plan of care. Identifies and addresses educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to the level of comprehension. Facilitates patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner, identifying potential discharges, assuring the performance of discharge teaching, and coordinating the plan with Case Management and others as indicated. Provides input into patient/nurse assignments in consideration of available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity. Demonstrates active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values and priorities. Promotes a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions. Assures nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence-based practice, current research, and caring philosophy. Actively participates in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures such as patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, and auditing and monitoring of documentation. Uses a holistic perspective regarding patient care.