Registered Nurse, 2nd FL MedSurg

• Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance then finds someone who can.
• Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
• Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
• Performs pre-admission testing on Med/Surg. patients.
• Performs nursing assessment and coordinates ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery including performing blood draws and EKGs.
• Reviews pre-operative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines.
• Reviews test results checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery.
• Reviews preoperative chart for completeness verifying that all paperwork is present and complete preoperatively such as consent form H&P and lab results.
• Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery.
• Initiates and documents post-operative phone calls to Med/Surg. patients.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

• 1 year med-surge experience preferred.
• Previous telemetry experience preferred.
• Skilled Nursing experience preferred.
• Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience

Required Licenses

• CurrentMA RN License
• ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire