RN - Emergency Care Center - FT - Midshift
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) uses the nursing process to coordinate an interdisciplinary approach to patient care and provides safe, therapeutic, holistic, and systematic care. The RN integrates knowledge, skills, and experience to meet patients’ and families’ needs across the continuum of care, collaborating with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team. The role includes communicating sensitively about patients’ psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and age-specific needs; supporting improvement in practice settings through lifelong learning; and providing direction, guidance, resources, precepting, and mentoring to others. The RN demonstrates leadership in decision-making and problem-solving and practices within the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, specialty standards, and organizational and departmental policies and procedures. This full-time role is in the Emergency Care Center at Olathe Hospital and is listed as a midshift position. The RN must be able to perform the professional, clinical, and technical competencies of the assigned unit or department. Responsibilities and duties may vary by department or unit, and other duties may be assigned as required.
Requirements
- High school diploma or graduate status.
- Associate Degree in Nursing.
- Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN), single-state Kansas license or compact license.
- CPR/AED/BLS certification; BLS is required within 14 days.
- Ability to perform the professional, clinical, and technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- Nurses hired after September 1, 2026, without a BSN must sign an ADN-to-BSN agreement at hire and complete a BSN degree by the fifth anniversary of hire into this role.
Responsibilities
- Follow hospital medication-safety policies, including order-writing formats, appropriate administration considerations, double checks, and other established practices.
- Respond to patient and significant-other calls, evaluate needs, and triage patient care.
- Anticipate and address concerns related to patient and staff safety in an appropriate and timely manner.
- Consistently meet the work schedule.
- Model individualized therapeutic communication based on patients’ and families’ psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural needs.
- Coordinate health care services with the hospital, vendors, physicians’ offices, and other institutions.
- Delegate appropriately based on the task, situation, and level of expertise, and function as an independent and supportive team member.
- Help build and maintain an environment where all team members can thrive.
- Use critical thinking across all aspects of the nursing process.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care; recognize changes in patient condition and adapt plans as needed.
- Identify areas for professional growth.
- Independently perform comprehensive assessments to provide effective care for the relevant patient population.
- Maintain a safe environment for patients.
- Perform nursing assessments and triage care needs for new and ongoing patients.
- Provide direct nursing care for assigned patients, including prescribed supportive care and administration of chemotherapy, blood components, fluid and electrolyte replacements, and other oncology treatments.
- Educate patients and families using available resources.
- Pursue additional learning experiences in the practice area, including unit-specific certifications, consultation with experts, in-services or rounds, and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
- Use technology correctly for patient care delivery, mandatory programs and competencies, and policies and procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
