Registered Nurse – Emergency Department

Federal Staffing Resources•Camp Lejeune, NC

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Registered Nurse - Emergency Department job in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. This role involves coordinating patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals, facilitating the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality, and cost-effectiveness. The nurse will ensure compliance with standards of care and practice, perform physical exams and health histories, provide health promotions, counseling, and education, and administer medications, wound care, and other interventions. The position requires directing and supervising care provided by other healthcare professionals, making patient care assignments based on scope of practice and skill level, and recognizing adverse signs and symptoms to react quickly in emergency situations. Communication and collaboration with diverse groups are essential for informing the healthcare team, teaching patients and families, and making appropriate referrals. The role includes performing nursing services identified in the TO, conducting research to improve practice and patient outcomes, and performing a full range of Registered Nurse duties in the Emergency Department. This includes triage, patient assessment and monitoring, use of treatment equipment, executing physician's orders, documenting patient care, and providing patient education and emotional support. A goal-directed plan of care will be formulated and carried out based on nursing diagnoses and patient outcomes, with prioritization according to patient needs and available resources. The nurse will ensure patient care areas are stocked and equipped, identify and meet patient learning needs, and assist in planning, providing clinical direction, and instructing other nursing personnel.

Requirements

Degree: Associates Degree of Nursing.
Graduate from a college or university accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). In lieu of graduation from an ACEN or CCNE Accredited program, the HCW may be a graduate from a State Board of Nursing accredited program.
Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Registered Nurse.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
Advanced Cardiac Life Supports (ACLS) certification.
Pediatric Life Support (PALS) certification.
Possess a minimum of one-year Registered Nurse Emergency Department experience in the last three years or at least two years full-time experience as a Registered Nurse in the last three years in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Responsibilities

Coordinate patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals.
Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality and cost effectiveness.
Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the MTF.
Perform physical exam and health histories.
Provide health promotions, counseling, and education.
Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized interventions.
Direct and supervise care provided by other healthcare professionals.
Accountable for making patient care assignments based on the scope of practice and skill level of assigned personnel.
Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as appropriate.
Perform nursing services identified in the TO.
Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes.
Perform a full range of Registered Nurse duties in accordance with assignment under the task order including: triage; patient assessment and monitoring; use of patient monitoring and treatment equipment; appropriate nursing care, procedures, and treatments; execution of physicians' orders within guidelines of standard nursing practice; documentation of patient care and observations; and patient education and emotional support.
Formulate and carry out a goal directed plan of care based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
Prioritize according to patient needs and available resources including time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
Ensure patient care areas are stocked and properly equipped.
Identify patient/significant other learning needs and implement appropriate measures to meet identified needs.
Assist in planning, provide clinical direction, and provide instruction to Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse, nursing assistants, and ancillary personnel.