Registered Nurse - Emergency Department (Oxford)

McLaren Health Care•Oxford, MI

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse is responsible for the quality of patient care provided to an assigned group of patients. This role indirectly supervises all nursing personnel assigned to the group of patients for whom he/she is coordinating. Key responsibilities include performing basic patient care procedures and medication administration, organizing patient care, conducting ongoing patient assessments focusing on age, physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status, and evaluating data collected by caregivers. The nurse develops and implements patient care plans tailored to the patient's age, identifies and addresses patient/family learning needs from admission to discharge, and designs patient teaching strategies. The position also involves evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, continually reassessing care based on new data, communicating changes in patient condition, charting observations, adjusting care plans, assigning personnel, delegating tasks, assuming a Charge position when assigned, seeking guidance, and participating in interdisciplinary Quality Improvement activities.

Requirements

RN licensure
BCLS
ACLS for required for certain units.
Graduate of an approved school of Nursing

Nice To Haves

One year experience in department clinical specialty
BSN

Responsibilities

Performs basic patient care procedures/techniques competently, including the administration of medication.
Organizes patient care effectively.
Performs assessment data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on age, physiologic, psychological and cognitive status of the patient.
Completes, reviews and evaluates the data collected by caregivers.
Develops a plan of care that prescribes nursing actions to achieve patient goals.
Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate process from admission to discharge.
Implements a plan of care, appropriate to the age of the patient, identified by: infancy, toddler, pre-school, school age, adolescent, young adult, adulthood, elderly/geriatric, as described in the department’s policies and procedures.
Initiates, delegates and ensures completion of the interventions necessary to accomplish patient outcomes.
Designs patient teaching strategies.
Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions of the health care team to progress the patient toward desired outcomes.
Continually reassesses all components of patient care based on new data.
Communicates changes in patient’s condition to appropriate person.
Charts appropriate observations and adjusts Nursing Care Plan as indicated.
Assigns personnel & delegates tasks appropriately.
Assumes Charge position as assigned.
Seeks guidance when indicated.
Participates in the planning, implementing and evaluation of the interdisciplinary Quality Improvements activities.