Registered Nurse - Post Surgical Ortho - 24 Hours - Midnights
About The Position
Provides leadership in coordinating and delivering quality, compassionate patient care. Uses the nursing process—assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to provide, delegate, supervise, and document patient care and teaching for patients and families. Communicates pertinent patient and family information to the healthcare team, participates in finding solutions when patient goals are not met, and ensures those solutions are implemented. Advocates for patients while planning, delivering, and evaluating goal-focused, individualized, safe, age-specific care, including for patients with complex pathophysiological or psychosocial needs. The role is on 2GPU, a post-surgical unit specializing in orthopedic surgery patients. Patients primarily arrive from the post-anesthesia care unit after bariatric, urology, colorectal, orthopedic, and other general surgeries; the unit also receives general medical-surgical admissions from the emergency department. The unit offers opportunities to develop and expand nursing skills across a varied patient population.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current licensure by the Michigan State Board of Nursing.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver quality, compassionate patient care.
- Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care.
- Provide, delegate, supervise, and document patient care and patient/family teaching.
- Communicate pertinent patient and family information to the healthcare team.
- Participate in identifying solutions when patient goals are not met and ensure solutions are implemented.
- Advocate for patients and provide goal-focused, individualized, safe, age-specific care, including care for patients with complex pathophysiological or psychosocial needs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
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