Registered Nurse, Endoscopy, 24-Hours, 700am 330pm, Temporary, Call as needed weekdays, Weekend call per rotation
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Job Location:
Gardner, KS - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 37 - 76
Posted on:
22 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: 24-Hours 7:00am - 3:30pm Temporary Call as needed weekdays Weekend call per rotation
Hourly Rate: $37.26 - $76.63
Job Summary:
Endoscopy RN is a valuable member of the Perioperative Endoscopy and Surgical team. Responsibilities of an Endoscopy RN include but are not limited to checking patients in upon their arrival to Perioperative Services initiating peripheral IV completing medication reconciliation providing teaching assisting with positioning for procedure administering and monitoring moderate sedation as needed per policy assisting with endoscopic procedures and specimen collection.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
- Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients visitors and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort and minimize risk and injury.
- Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
- Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
- Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
- Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
- Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
- All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
- 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.
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor instructor trainer attends professional development programs etc.).
- 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.
- Initiates and administers IVs in accordance with physician orders and nursing policy and procedure to support required treatment.
- Observes and documents patients response to intravenous therapy.
- Safely administers and monitors patients receiving blood and blood products according to policy and procedure and observes and documents patients response to blood transfusions
- Assesses and reassesses patients undergoing endoscopy procedures and documents patient care in the Meditech NUR Module.
- Monitors and observes patients continuously during endoscopy procedures giving special attention to oxygenation ventilation and heart rate and rhythm.
- Administers IV conscious sedation safely and in accordance with physician orders and nursing policy and procedure.
- Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
- All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
- Float within perioperative services as needed.
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 flexibility concern for order initiative self-confidence self control customer service orientation interpersonal effectiveness teamwork and information seeking.
Qualifications
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Education
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Proficiency in peripheral IV insertion required.
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
- Current RN license in MA.
- Current AHA ACLS Certification
Minimum Work Experience
- Prior endoscopy experience strongly the absence of endoscopy experience minimum other experience such as 1 year of recent Med/Surg ED ICU OR peri-operative or OB will be considered.
Required Skills
- Excellent communication critical care and critical thinking skills are to cross train within peri-operative services preferred.
- Must be able to take call per departmental needs
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
- Hospice Care
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Catheterization
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
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
