Registered Nurse (RN) - Acute Care (Nights)

Sauk Prairie Healthcare•Prairie du Sac, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provide quality, professional general nursing care to patients and assess, plan, implement, document, and evaluate care for a group of patients on the unit. Adapt to changing assignments, patient status, and unit needs while following unit and SPH standards, practices, policies, and procedures. The role includes progressive care duties as assigned and may include precepting another person.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
For RNs providing care to 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 patients’ stays and individualize care to their needs and circumstances.
Develop, document, and review or revise patient care plans at least every 24 hours, based on assessments and medical diagnoses.
Provide care independently within unit requirements, physician orders, and applicable policies and procedures.
Respond to life-threatening situations according to nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocols.
Explain procedures and treatments to patients at their level of understanding; perform or assist with procedures under approved unit policy.
Observe and document significant changes in patient condition and treatment reactions, and promptly notify a supervisor or physician as appropriate.
Monitor, document, and communicate patient condition using computerized documentation systems.
Review and verify physician orders in the EMR, then complete or delegate them in a timely manner.
Administer medications, including IV therapy, safely and proficiently.
Initiate patient and family education and discharge planning based on their needs and applicable orders or policies.
Delegate to and collaborate with health team members in planning and providing care.
Maintain required skills and equipment competencies; safely care for multiple patients and maintain a safe environment.
Follow Universal Precautions, asepsis, and infection control procedures, and handle specimens properly.
Float to other units as necessary.
Participate in unit or department quality improvement activities and attend 75% of unit meetings.
Perform progressive care duties as assigned, including monitoring cardiac monitors, ventilators, alarms, external pacemakers, oxygen delivery devices, transduced pressure lines, and central lines.
Recognize cardiopulmonary emergencies, initiate standardized stabilization interventions, and prepare patients for transfer to a higher level of care.
Interpret arterial blood gas results and communicate findings.
Recognize indications for and manage patients requiring noninvasive oxygen delivery systems, including oral airways, high-flow oxygen, BiPAP, and CPAP.
Assess patients receiving mechanical ventilation, monitor their response, and ensure prescribed treatment is delivered.
May precept another person.