Registered Nurse - Home Health - NWV - Per Diem

Valley Health•Martinsburg, WV

135d•$34 - $49

About The Position

The Registered Nurse is responsible for using nursing skills to carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management. The nurse is responsible for quality communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism. The role also directs, coordinates, and implements patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel while maintaining professional nursing standards. The Per Diem Registered Nurse provides care to the assigned patient population. The role requires completion of annual mandatory competencies and any unit-specific competencies identified by the Director or designee. Per Diem nurses must also complete Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility; participating in PI activity and department initiatives; sharing information from unit or hospital committees, paid education, seminars or conferences, workshops, or nursing articles; and maintaining an annual portfolio submitted to the Director or designee by March 1. The nurse routinely solicits and validates patient and family satisfaction, participates in unit peer review, and develops educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or families.

Requirements

Associate degree or RN diploma (ASN or ADN) in nursing is required.
Two years of RN experience is required.
RN license, or eligibility to practice pending licensure, in the Commonwealth of Virginia with either a Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state license or a Virginia-only single-state license is required.
American Heart Association-approved BLS Healthcare Provider (HCP) certification is required; new hires must have appropriate AHA certification before completing orientation.
Competence providing care based on patients' cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of growth and development.
Competence providing patient care using the nursing process.
A reliable means of phone communication with the hospital is required.
If beginning employment as an RN I or promoting to RN I from a Valley Health position, an RNA must secure an Eligibility to Test Letter from the Virginia Board of Nursing, or interim phone primary-source verification and documentation by Valley Health Nurse Recruitment while awaiting the letter, if a Virginia resident or non-compact-state resident.
A resident of a Compact state other than Virginia must first secure a home-state Compact license with multi-state privileges before commencing RN employment as an RN I; such a resident cannot commence employment as an RNA.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Relevant specialty certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
Provide care to the assigned patient population.
Maintain quality communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism.
Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
Complete annual mandatory and applicable unit-specific competencies.
Complete Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility and participating in PI activity and department initiatives.
Share information with the Director or designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education, seminars or conferences, workshops, or nursing articles.
Maintain a current portfolio and submit it to the Director or designee annually by March 1.
Routinely solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction.
Participate in unit peer review.
Develop educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.