RN Cardiac Telemetry
About The Position
As our Staff RN, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Requirements
- Diploma Of Nursing and At least one year of acute care experience, upon hire or
- Associate Of Nursing and At least one year of acute care experience, upon hire and
- Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days
Nice To Haves
- Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire and
- 5+ years
Responsibilities
- Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way.
- Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
- Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
- Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
- Assesses pain level in all patients using "0-10", "Faces", or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing.
- Reports significant observed or altered patient conditions in a timely manner.
- Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care: determines immediate priorities and offers solutions for problems.
- Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience.
- Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict.
- Evaluates patient outcomes and makes revisions in the plan of care.
- Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards.
- Labels lab specimens, maintaining the performance standard of zero tolerance for mislabeled specimens.
- Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.
- Consistently communicates/collaborates with the health care team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
- Keeps informed of unit initiatives, and incorporates the outcomes of the team/ committees work into practice.
- Participates on unit teams, work groups and/or committees.
- Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.
- Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.
- Incorporates data and information to continuously improve care and practice to enhance outcomes.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
- Incorporates research findings into nursing practice.
- Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care team members: displays leadership behaviors.
- Identifies own learning needs based on self-evaluation and the progress made from the previous year's goals.
- Demonstrates evidence of a minimum of 20 hours of self-development activities with a minimum of 6 formal contact hours.(beyond orientation/ fellowship program).
- Maintains own Employee Continuing Education Record.
- Has met and completed all initial and annual competency validations as required by position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
