Internal Travel Team

Emory Healthcare•Tucker, GA

16d•$62•Hybrid

About The Position

Emory Healthcare is seeking a capable Operating Room Registered Nurse / OR / RN for their internal travel nursing team. This role offers flexibility to tailor work/life balance and involves travel to different Emory locations within Emory Healthcare. The ideal candidate is a capable clinician with broad experience in patient care and a sound understanding of a particular patient population's care. They will identify appropriate standards of care, safely provide patient care, and support the unit's and hospital's Vision Alignment Matrix. The nurse will routinely use acquired knowledge, theory, research, and experience to respond to changes in clinical situations and apply the Synergy Model for Care. Responsibilities include serving as a preceptor and resource to colleagues, advocating for patients/families, maintaining professional behavior, assessing assigned patients, reviewing medical history, interviewing patients and families, determining appropriate nursing interventions, administering direct nursing care, evaluating patient responses, educating patients and families, mobilizing necessary equipment and resources, collaborating with the healthcare team, attending staff meetings, providing clinical guidance, demonstrating competency in new equipment and procedures, serving on committees, and performing other related duties.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
2.5 years of recent and relevant nursing experience in Operating Room.
Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Georgia.
BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, FHM (relevant to role) required.
Professional certification in at least 1 relevant specialty area required.
Completion of professional certification in relevant specialty area required within 1 year of employment with ESP.

Responsibilities

Identifies appropriate standards of care common to the patient population and safely provides patient care while supporting the unit's and hospital's Vision Alignment Matrix.
Routinely uses acquired knowledge, theory, research, and experience to respond to changes in clinical situations.
Is able to apply the Synergy Model for Care in practice and use this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family.
Serves as a preceptor and resource to colleagues (such as less experienced nurses) and strong advocate for patients/families.
Maintains courteous and professional behavior at all times.
Assesses assigned patients; reviews medical history, admitting diagnosis, physician's orders, nursing history, and evaluation of diagnostic data.
Interviews patient and family to determine patient needs; communicates these to interdisciplinary health care team members as appropriate.
Determines appropriate nursing interventions for identified problems, symptoms, behavioral changes.
Identifies appropriate standards of care and/or collaborative clinical pathways to guide the plan of care; revises as appropriate.
Administers direct nursing care to assigned patients based on priorities and timeframes.
Evaluates patients' responses to delivery of nursing care and patient education for self-care.
Keeps patients and family up to date on progress.
Develops, conducts and evaluates patient and family education in discussing plan of care.
Teaches family and patient to perform specific procedures; documents activities.
When required explains rational and/or principles behind the physiology or consequences of treatments.
Determines and mobilizes equipment and resources necessary for successful patient care; seeks assistance in completing nursing interventions.
Works with manager to formulate plan for professional development.
Attends educational in-services as appropriate.
Participate in professional activities and organizations to maintain knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments.
Following established charting procedures, documents all aspects of patient care to show progress or changes in patient's condition.
Collaborates with members of the health care team to determine patient needs and needs of significant others in planning the treatment.
Attends scheduled staff meetings.
Provides clinical guidance to students and ancillary staff.
Demonstrates competency in all new equipment and procedures.
Serves on committees.
Performs other related duties as required.