Registered Nurse (RN) - Acute Care (Nights)

Sauk Prairie Healthcare•Prairie du Sac, WI

About The Position

Provide quality, professional general nursing care to patients. Assess, plan, implement, document, and evaluate patient care for a group of patients on the unit. Adapt appropriately to changes in daily assignments, patient status, and unit needs while following all unit and SPH standards, practices, policies, and procedures. This is a full-time, 0.9 FTE position (72 hours per pay period) with 12-hour night shifts from 6:45 PM to 7:15 AM. The schedule includes a holiday rotation and a rotation every third weekend. There are no on-call requirements. The role may include progressive care duties and precepting another person. The nurse may float to other units as needed.

Requirements

Associate Degree in Nursing.
Current Wisconsin Registered Nurse license or Multistate Nurse License.
Basic Life Support certification within 3 months of hire.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification within one year of hire.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 6 months of hire.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
For RNs caring for progressive care-level patients: previous ICU, PACU, or Critical Care experience, or completion of SPH’s PC Mentorship Program.

Responsibilities

Use the nursing process throughout the patient’s stay, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Individualize patient care and initiate, develop, document, and review or revise the patient’s plan of care at least every 24 hours.
Provide care independently with minimal supervision, within unit requirements, physician orders, and applicable policies and procedures.
Respond to life-threatening situations according to nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocols.
Understand procedures and treatments and explain them to patients at an appropriate level.
Perform or assist with procedures in accordance with approved unit policies and procedures.
Observe and record significant changes in patient condition and reactions; promptly notify a supervisor or physician of changes, reactions to drugs or treatment, and significant incidents.
Monitor, record, and communicate patient condition using computerized documentation systems.
Review and verify physician orders in the electronic medical record, then complete or delegate follow-up promptly.
Administer medications, including IV therapy, safely and proficiently.
Initiate patient and family education and discharge planning based on individual needs, physician direction, and hospital policy.
Delegate to and collaborate with other health team members in planning and providing care.
Maintain necessary skills and equipment competencies and safely care for multiple patients.
Maintain a safe patient environment and use appropriate safety precautions.
Use universal precautions, asepsis, and infection-control procedures; ensure proper handling of specimens.
Float to other units as necessary.
Participate in department or unit quality-improvement activities and attend at least 75% of unit meetings.
When assigned progressive care duties, apply and monitor medical equipment and devices, recognize cardiopulmonary emergencies and initiate standardized interventions, interpret arterial blood gas analysis and communicate findings, manage noninvasive oxygen delivery systems, and assess patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
May precept another person.