Resource RN
About The Position
The Resource RN provides professional nursing services and quality patient care while meeting regulatory requirements and the nursing scope of practice. The nurse collaborates in developing, implementing, and assessing patient care plans, and directly engages in patient care by assessing, planning, coordinating, and delegating tasks to the patient care team. The role includes educating patients, families, and staff; implementing interventions to optimize outcomes; and managing issues in a physician's absence. The Resource RN is accountable for care quality, directs care, uses resources efficiently, and provides comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients. The nurse conducts care assessments and interprets findings to determine patient needs and constraints, completes system-based and hospital-specific competencies, and maintains accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care, and patient responses. In collaboration with patients and their families, the RN evaluates, plans, directs, and administers care according to established standards, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related considerations. The RN administers medications safely and accurately and appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions performed by licensed and non-licensed personnel. The position is at Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed community hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, which includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East and a 16-bed Level III NICU.
Requirements
- Associate of Science in Nursing and at least one year of experience as an RN in an acute care facility upon hire, or graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing with one to three years of experience, including at least one year as an RN in an acute care facility upon hire.
- Kentucky Registered Nurse license upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 90 days.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification within six months.
- Trauma Nurse Core Course certification within 12 months.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing and at least one year of experience as an RN in an acute care facility upon hire.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide professional nursing services and quality patient care in accordance with regulatory requirements and nursing scope of practice.
- Collaboratively develop, implement, and assess patient care plans.
- Assess, plan, coordinate, and delegate tasks to the patient care team using critical thinking.
- Educate patients, families, and staff, implement interventions for optimal outcomes, and manage issues in a physician's absence.
- Direct care, remain accountable for care quality, and use resources efficiently, including providing comprehensive perioperative care for surgical patients.
- Conduct care assessments and interpret assessment data to determine care needs and constraints.
- Complete system-based and hospital-specific competencies.
- Maintain accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, and patient responses, and integrate documentation into the plan of care.
- Evaluate, plan, direct, and administer patient care in collaboration with patients and families.
- Implement plans of care based on established standards, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related considerations.
- Administer medications safely and accurately.
- Delegate and supervise routine technical functions performed by licensed and non-licensed personnel.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
