Registered Nurse (Med/Surg/Tele, 36hr, Day/Night)
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides direct and indirect nursing care, health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning, and rehabilitation. The nurse collaborates with physicians and other disciplines to ensure quality, cost-effective patient care. The Derenzo Patient Care Unit is a general medical/surgical/telemetry unit. Patients are admitted from the emergency department, post-anesthesia care unit, physicians’ offices, and occasionally directly from their residence. The diverse patient population includes people with medical diagnoses and patients who have undergone abdominal, orthopedic, plastic, or urological surgeries, among other procedures. This is a night position.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree.
- Required Registered Nurse license and registration.
- Basic Life Support required.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Life Support certificates required.
- 0–1 years of related work experience.
- Computer systems experience, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access.
- BLS is required for all registered nurses in direct patient care areas; ACLS is required in critical care areas listed in the posting; PALS is required in ED, Float, and PACU.
- Competency in providing patient care to neonatal, youth, young adult, middle-age, and elderly age groups.
- Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices, address varied problems through analysis or interpretation, follow procedures and organize work, communicate moderately complex information in English in written formats, comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English, demonstrate in-depth knowledge in varied situations, work collaboratively in small teams, and provide a high level of customer service.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Mutually formulate outcomes with the patient, significant others, and the health care team when appropriate.
- Delegate appropriate patient care activities to coworkers with suitable knowledge and skill levels, and hold them accountable for completing delegated tasks in a timely manner.
- Provide care appropriate to the population groups regularly served and seek assistance from resources when other population groups need care.
- Perform patient teaching as required and provide care in accordance with the plan of care and practice standards.
- Provide care in a nonjudgmental manner that respects patients’ rights, autonomy, dignity, and confidentiality.
- Collaborate with physicians and other disciplines to ensure quality, cost-effective patient care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
