Registered Nurse, 2nd FL Med/Surg, Temporary

Athol Hospital•Athol, MA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This is a temporary position for a Registered Nurse on the 2nd FL Med/Surg unit, working 12-hour shifts, day/evening, from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. The role involves providing direct patient care, patient and family education, discharge planning, medication administration, and performing pre-admission testing for Med/Surg patients. The position also includes coordinating ancillary testing, performing blood draws and EKGs, reviewing pre-operative orders, and providing emotional support to patients.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Current MA RN License
ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire
Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience

Nice To Haves

1 year med-surge experience preferred
Previous telemetry experience preferred
Skilled Nursing experience preferred

Responsibilities

Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others.
Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury.
Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
Actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients’ response to medication.
Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
Performs pre-admission testing on Med/Surg. patients.
Performs nursing assessment and coordinates ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery including performing blood draws and EKG's.
Reviews pre-operative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines.
Reviews test results, checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon, anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery.
Reviews preoperative chart for completeness verifying that all paperwork is present and complete preoperatively, such as consent form, H&P, and lab results.
Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery.
Initiates and documents post-operative phone calls to Med/Surg. patients.