Registered Nurse, ICU, Per Diem, Nights, All shifts, 700am 730pm or 700pm 730am, Varied schedule, Monday-Sunday
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Job Location:
Gardner, KS - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 37 - 76
Posted on:
30 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
You Matter Here!
Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!
Hours: Per Diem Nights All shifts 7:00am - 7:30pm or 7:00pm - 7:30am Varied schedule Monday-Sunday
Hourly Rate: $37.26 - $76.63
Job Summary:
Under the supervision of the Nurse Manager or designee the Registered Nurse functions as a professional participant in the health care team who provides direct and indirect care to patients families and significant others utilizing the nursing process in accordance with the philosophy goals and objectives of Nursing Services.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Assesses (and reassesses) plans implements and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
- Provides patient care based on standards of care standards of practice protocols and established policies and procedures.
- Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
- Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs readiness to learn and barriers to learning.
- Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary
- Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
- Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources reassigns personnel as necessary recognizes need for emergency intervention etc.).
- Provides thorough timely and accurate documentation of all pertinent data therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
- Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor instructor trainer attends professional development programs etc.).
- Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
- Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
- Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders protocols policies and procedures.
- Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
- Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed as well as documents assessment and patients response to medication.
- Performs accurate and timely identification of cardiac arrhythmias.
- Performs accurate and timely interpretation of EKG configuration changes (i.e. PR interval ST segment).
- Institutes monitors and documents thrombolytic and anticoagulation therapy standards and protocols.
- Demonstrates knowledge of mechanical ventilation (e.g. modes settings and adjuncts associated with mechanical ventilation.
- Demonstrates skills associated with initiation maintenance and care of the intubated patient including suctioning troubleshooting and weaning.
- Accurately interprets arterial blood gases pulse oximetry and clinical features of impaired gas exchange and/or airway clearance.
- Demonstrates understanding hemodynamic monitoring procedures sets up equipment assists with arterial artery and central vein cannulation.
- Safely administers vasoactive medications demonstrating understanding of dosage action use side effects and titration parameters associated with maintenance of critical drips.
- Provides ongoing assessment and monitoring of the patient in the immediate post-operative phase according to established standards and protocols.
- Demonstrates appropriate interventions related to potential problems/complications during the recovery phase of general regional spinal or conscious sedation.
- Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
- Responsible for implementing components of the VAP bundle consistently and per protocol. Responsible for alerting the Nurse Manager/Director/Nursing Supervisor if there is a deviation from VAP bundle by Attending MD for case review and follow up as indication.
- Participates actively in daily multi-disciplinary rounds for planning coordinating implementing and evaluating patient care.
Statement of Other Duties
This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
FUNCTIONAL DEMANDS
Physical Requirements:
Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands) and feels (perceiving attributes of items such as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees).
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
Behavioral Attributes:
The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation concern for order flexibility initiative self-confidence customer service oriented interpersonal effectiveness teamwork analytical thinking and information seeking.
Qualifications
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Education
Graduate of accredited school of nursing
Minimum Work Experience
1 yr med-surge experience preferred
Previous telemetry experience preferred
ICU experience preferred
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
- Current MA Registered Nurses license
- ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire
- CCRN preferred
Key Skills
- Environmental Safety
- Analysis
- Autocad Design
- Import & Export
- BI
- Financial Management
About Company
About Heywood Healthcare Heywood Healthcare is an independent, community-owned healthcare system serving north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, comprised of Heywood Hospital, a 134-bed acute care community-owned non-profit hospital in Gardner, MA; Athol Hospital, a 25 ... View more
