Registered Nurse-Medical/Surgical

Decypher•Tacoma, WA

9d•$61

About The Position

Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of Americas service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States. Job Summary: The Medical Surgical Registered Nurse provides comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care by assessing, planning, implementing, and documenting treatment in accordance with established clinical and documentation standards, while serving as a patient advocate and educator. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to manage complex and high-risk patient needs, administer medications and treatments safely, respond effectively to emergencies, and support quality assurance and infection control initiatives.

Requirements

Degree/Education: Associate's in nursing from accredited school (ACEN or CCNE)
Licensure: Current unrestricted RN license in one of the 50 US States and/or territories
Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS)
Experience: 1 year of nursing experience as an RN in Medical/Surgical unit
U.S. Citizenship is required

Responsibilities

Functions as a patient advocate.
Assesses patient/family knowledge level, develops, and implements a plan of instruction and documents demonstrated level of understanding. Assessment plans will be targeted at age specific needs.
Each nurse will manually and/or electronically document all patient care given and the progress of the patient utilizing the MAMC documentation standards in the patients' medical record.
The RN assesses the patient and plans for appropriate nursing care. The care provided is documented in the patient's medical record along with their progress.
RNs also develop and manage nursing care plans; instructs patients and their families in proper care; and helps individuals and groups take steps to improve or maintain their health.
Communicates pertinent patient information to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
The RN verifies transcription of physician orders.
Administers medications and blood products with the knowledge of actions and usual dosages of commonly used drugs. Medications shall be administered within the scope of nursing practice and include intravenous, subcutaneous, oral, transdermal, rectal, and intramuscular. Each nurse will have knowledge of actions, adverse effects, interactions, and dosages. For RNs only: Anti-cancer chemotherapy drugs are excluded unless contractor's employee as obtained appropriate documented education in cancer chemotherapeutic drugs and administration.
Performs a vast array of direct patient care procedures to include but not limited to: range of motion exercises, lifting, turning, transporting, and positioning patients, personal hygiene care, changing linen and clothing and feeding patients.
Manages care of patients for a wide range of procedures of an advanced nature and difficulty where there is a high risk for infection and bodily functions are mechanically assisted by life support equipment.
Plans and implements care with the collaboration of other healthcare providers.
Calls report to the appropriate unit/ward and provides pertinent data such as surgical procedures performed, patient problems, nursing diagnosis and actions, patient response, specialized care, and equipment necessary to support the patient.
Performs duties in accordance with established infection control protocols.
Responsible for quality assurance/risk management and responds to breaches of standard procedures which compromise the patient or staff members.
May also serve as a project officer for select committees and participate in research projects that are consultative in nature and involve shared information or data gathering for new or existing technologies.
Registered Nurses shall utilize comprehensive knowledge of workload requirements in conjunction with knowledge of the composition and capabilities of assigned staff, to distribute/redistribute personnel resources in response to unforeseen patient care needs.
Attends and participates in: patient nursing reports, patient care conferences, team/unit/clinic conferences, discharge planning, and staff conferences as deemed appropriate by administrative officials.
Demonstrates the ability to manage interpersonal relationships and maintains composure and reacts appropriately while relating to patients and families; manage distraught, irritable, unreasonable or angry individuals; and to maintains positive rapport with all individuals involved in patient care.
Demonstrates the ability to react with alertness and skill in any emergency situation, e.g., cardiac, or respiratory arrest, hemorrhage, shock, severe physical trauma and psychiatric reaction, Initiates life saving measures in the absence of a physician. Depending on position and protocol, may serve as member of resuscitation or emergency code team.
Assesses patients' conditions for potential or life-threatening crises and distinguishes between normal and abnormal physical findings; initiates life saving measures in the absence of a physician.
Knowledgeable of the pharmacology of most commonly used emergency drugs, anticipated results, usual dosages, and their location on crash cart. Capable of emergency equipment operation: defibrillator, EKG machine, cardiac monitor, and other equipment as determined by MTF, unit/clinic and position.
Participates in discharge planning as appropriate and convenes multidisciplinary patient care conferences to address complex medical/nursing care needs.