PRN Registered Nurse Nights

Ally Medical Management LLC • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Provides professional nursing care for emergency room patients. The nurse triages patients and determines priority of care based on their medical complaints or current symptoms, and promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process in collaboration with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. The position works directly with physicians during examinations, procedures, diagnostic testing, and treatment, and performs nursing interventions as ordered by physicians.

The role requires assessing and reassessing patients across the general population, including pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients; recognizing and treating life-threatening conditions; administering and documenting medications and care; and reviewing discharge instructions and confirming patient stability before discharge. The nurse must also comply with Ally Medical’s privacy, security, confidentiality, and information-security policies, report suspected or expected data or system compromises, and attend annual Information Security Awareness Training.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Two years of registered nurse and/or emergency room nursing experience.
• Current RN license in the state of practice.
• CPR/BLS certification.
• ACLS certification.
• PALS certification.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate patients’ medical complaints or current symptoms and report findings to physicians.
• Triage patients and determine priority of care based on their medical complaints or symptoms.
• Assist physicians with examinations, procedures, diagnostic testing, and treatments.
• Perform physician-ordered IV initiation, infusion and therapy; blood draws; cardiac monitoring; pulse oximetry; oxygen administration; nebulized treatments; wound cleaning and bandaging; splint application; and basic bedside care.
• Recognize and effectively treat life-threatening conditions.
• Perform head-to-toe assessments and reassessments for pediatric, adolescent, geriatric, and general-population patients.
• Assist physicians with procedures, including laceration repair, procedures requiring moderate sedation, incision and drainage, cardiac arrest, intubation, chest tube insertion, foreign body removal, live birth or spontaneous aborted fetus and tissue, and recording time of death and birth.
• Assist the Administrator with reporting an emergency-room death as needed.
• Prepare and administer physician-ordered medications and document their administration and related information in the patient’s medical record.
• Review discharge instructions with patients, take vital signs before discharge to ensure patient stability, and record results in the medical record.
• Record patient care information concisely, accurately, completely, and promptly in the appropriate format, and submit it to the Front Desk Representative for entry in the patient medical record.
• Protect company and customer credentials and data, maintain confidentiality, and comply with information-security policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.
• Report suspected or expected data or system compromises and security-related system failures to management immediately.
• Attend annual Information Security Awareness Training.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Associate degree