Registered Nurse (RN) - Forensic - St. Francis Downtown - PRN

Bon Secours Mercy Health • Greenville, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Forensic Registered Nurse (RN) will be responsible for providing and coordinating comprehensive patient care through the nursing process to deliver safe, therapeutic care in accordance with established standards, policies, and procedures. The Forensic RN will use evidence-based practice, clinical decision making, compassion and skilled communication, leads efforts to create the safest patient environment and the best patient experience.

Requirements

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association
• Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
• Performs comprehensive assessment of patient's clinical condition and psychosocial needs of the patient and their supportive resources.
• Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care.
• Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery.
• Assesses patient's physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes, revises plan of care accordingly.
• Assists patient and family in coping with patient's illness.
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources.
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks assistance and acquires information to perform safely.
• Integrates cost-effective measures into practice and models effective stewardship of available resources.
• Practices self-care and cultivates resilience in conflict and difficult circumstances.
• Protects the safety and privacy of all persons.
• Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies
• Ability to communicate with patients in a manner they can understand considering their personal preferences.
• Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence.
• Remains calm, adaptive, and collective during an emergency.
• Recognizes, collects, packages, preserves, and transfers specimens and samples with potential legal evidentiary value.
• Documents relevant information accurately and thoroughly.
• Applies ethical, legal, and privacy guidelines to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of information.
• Knowledge of contemporary forensic nursing evidence-based practice, research, and future innovations.
• Evaluation of professional forensic nursing practice to optimize goals and outcomes.
• Identification, collection, and organization of data relevant to forensic nurses.
• Administers, organizes, and coordinates the role of the forensic nurse in programs, systems, and environments where the forensic nurse practices.
• Involvement and influence in internal and external systems where professional and societal regulations of nursing practice affect public health and safety.
• Development, analysis, and implementation of health policy relevant to forensic nurses and patient populations in forensic settings.
• Provision of ethical, safe, evidenced-based, trauma-informed direct patient care related to injury, crime, victimization, violence, abuse, and exploitation.
• Provision of testimony forensic, both fact and expert, in a variety of judicial settings.
• Ability to meet the physical and emotional demands of forensic nursing care.

Nice To Haves

• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE - A) - International Association of Forensic Nurses
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE - P) - International Association of Forensic Nurses
• Two years of professional experience practicing as a RN
• International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) didactic training for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Forensic Nursing program

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team
• Collect vital signs, administer IV medications, understand charting, and assess patient condition
• Provides episodic care for populations affected by trauma, including those legally defined as victims, suspects, the accused, and perpetrators
• Delivers education to patients, staff, communities, and populations in the prevention, detection, and treatment of the effects of violence
• Acts as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurances, mental health resources and discounts
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders
• Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree