Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: ICU Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Third Shift Hours per Shift: 12 hours Experience: Minimum of 0 years required License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the applicable state Certifications: BLS required Must-Have: - Accept responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations. - Practice effective, clear, and respectful communication (both verbal and written) and demonstrate attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language. - Collaborate, respect, and cooperate with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team. - Warmly and professionally greet 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. - Show 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. The creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness is essential. Nursing practices are based on evidence, current research, hospital policies, 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 includes provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments. Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities is part of the role. Providing patient and family-centered education is crucial. Care coordination and individualized treatment planning are applicable tasks. Assessment of patient needs is performed according to RN scope of practice and hospital policies. Consideration of the patient's culture, age, and developmental level is vital. Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints is required. Obtaining patient health information from family or others as necessary is part of the process. Collecting objective and subjective data is essential. Verifying initial admission assessment is important if obtained by other team members. Developing a problem list prioritizes patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team. Designing actions and interventions relevant to the patient’s culture and age is necessary. Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family according to the medical plan of care is expected. Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice is crucial. Explaining procedures, treatments, and processes to the patient and family is part of the job. Initiating action to alleviate patient stress and discomfort is imperative. Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient condition appropriately is a key responsibility. Conducting and documenting ongoing assessment and response to procedures and therapies using the nursing process according to hospital policy is required. Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in the performance of patient care activities is part of the role. Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members is essential. Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to their level of comprehension is necessary. Facilitating the patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner is expected. Providing input into patient/nurse assignments based on staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity is required. Demonstrating active participation in unit-based activities supports organizational values and priorities. Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions is essential. Assuring nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards and evidence-based practice is a priority. Actively participating in quality improvement activities and core measures is expected. Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care is necessary.
