Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: Telemetry Duration: 13 weeks Shift: First Shift Hours per Shift: 12 Experience: No experience required License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse 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 co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team. - Warmly greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect. - Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications or ability to be trained. - Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients. Description: The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person. The focus is on creating a caring environment centered on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research, as well as 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. The role involves coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit. Responsibilities include performing nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments. Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities is also a part of the role. Providing patient and family-centered education is essential. Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable are required. The nurse will conduct and document comprehensive assessments in accordance with scope of practice and policies. Consideration of the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level is vital. Identifying patient risk factors and obtaining health information from family or others as necessary is necessary. Collecting objective and subjective data is part of the role. Verification of initial assessments obtained by other team members is required. Developing a problem list and prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team is essential. Designing actions and interventions relevant to the patient’s culture and age is required. Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family in accordance with the medical plan of care is expected. Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures within scope of practice is crucial. The nurse will explain procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families. Initiating action to alleviate patient stress and discomfort is important. Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient condition appropriately is required. Ongoing assessment and documentation of responses to procedures and therapies using the nursing process according to policy is essential. Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in patient care activities is part of the role. Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care is necessary. Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients according to their comprehension is expected. Facilitating the patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner is part of the role. Actively participating in unit-based activities in support of organizational values is essential. Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions is important. Assuring nursing excellence according to accepted standards, evidence-based practices, and current research is required. Active participation in quality improvement activities and core measures, such as patient satisfaction and patient falls, is necessary. A holistic perspective regarding patient care is encouraged.
