NURSE APPRENTICE, Emergency Dept, Per Diem

UHS•Reno, NV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi-facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more. Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com What we at Sierra Medical Center value: • Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family. • Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch. • Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives. • Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care. • Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards. • Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone. • Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve. • Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com This Nurse Apprentice opportunity is per diem and offers a convenient flexible schedule. This dynamic individual will provide support to nursing care and coordinates the delivery of patient treatments to assigned patients in a medical/surgical facility, ensuring adherence to hospital or department and University policies, and nursing procedures, standards, and practices. Assess patient health, Develops plan of care for patients, administers treatments, educate patients and their families and provides patient and family support as a liaison with the doctors and others members of the staff.

Requirements

Currently enrolled in an accredited School of Nursing.
Has completed the first year of clinical rotations in an acute care hospital.
Current BLS certification.

Responsibilities

Ability to perform a head-to-toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy. This includes: pediatric, geriatric and the general patient population.
In coordination with RN preceptor, is able to formulate a patient care plan.
Ability to revise plan of care as indicated by the patient’s response to treatment and evaluate overall plan daily for effectiveness under the supervision of the RN preceptor.
Knowledge of medications and their correct administration, under the direct supervision of the RN preceptor, based on age of the patient and their clinical condition.