ED - Emergency Room

Opportunity:

RN - ED

Job Details:

• Work 3x12-hour night shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM
• Implement professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person within a caring, healing-focused environment
• Perform and document comprehensive patient assessments in accordance with RN scope of practice
• Consider patient culture, age, and developmental level when designing care actions and interventions
• Identify patient risk factors, presenting complaints, and collect objective and subjective data
• Obtain patient health information from family or others as necessary
• Develop prioritized problem lists and determine desired outcomes in coordination with patients, families, and the inter-professional team
• Fully implement patient care therapies and procedures with clinical autonomy within scope of practice
• Explain procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families
• Recognize, respond to, and communicate changes in patient condition appropriately
• Conduct and document ongoing assessments and responses to procedures and therapies using the nursing process
• Delegate tasks appropriately and oversee team members in patient care activities
• Identify and address educational needs of patients based on level of comprehension
• Facilitate patient discharge process including discharge teaching and coordination with Case Management
• Actively participate in unit-based quality improvement activities including patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTIs, and documentation auditing
• Promote a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions