RN -Emergency Department (Per Diem) #3454

Reedsburg Area Medical Center • Reedsburg, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Our Emergency Department is looking for a Per Diem RN to join their fantastic team! This role involves 12-hour shifts, with times varying based on needs. The RN coordinates patient care with multidisciplinary team members to facilitate health promotion and continuity of care in a cost-efficient manner. They provide direct nursing care to individuals and assist patients and families as directed by the nursing and medical plan of care, utilizing the nursing process and adhering to established standards. The RN communicates with patients, families, and team members to provide updates, promote effective coping, and evaluate patient responses to care. Patient populations include newborn, infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing, BSN preferred.
• Current RN licensure in the state of Wisconsin.
• BLS certified, PALS and ACLS within one year of hire.
• Meets health requirements.
• Graduate nursing students from an accredited 2 year or 4 year program required.
• Frequent standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting, pushing and pulling up to 10 pounds.
• Occasionally lifting, pushing and pulling up to 50 pounds when moving equipment or providing patient care.
• Occasionally bend to the floor, squat, kneel, crouch and reach overhead to assist with patient care or retrieve equipment or supplies.
• Frequent reaching in front of body while assisting patients and using equipment.
• Fine motor skills needed to operate equipment, such as monitors and computers and to provide patient care, such as starting IV's.
• Occasionally use sight capacities, including spatial, peripheral, colors, accommodation and depth perception.
• Frequently use near and far vision while reviewing patient records, computer screens, charts, hemoccult results, gauges on patient equipment, monitors, etc.
• Occasional adaptation from computer to patient care.
• Frequently utilizes simple reading skills, normal conversations.
• Frequently is exposed to low volume speech with patients and telephone conversations with other members of the healthcare team, physicians, and family members.
• Occasional complex reading, writing and math skills to acquire communicate and use knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality patient care.
• Continual exposure to an inside, patient environment with occasional unpleasant odors or noises.
• Occasional exposure to low light or glare conditions.
• Occasional exposure to infectious blood/body fluids and diseases requiring infection control practices, red infectious waste.
• Occasional exposure to needles/syringes/sharps during medication administration, assistance with treatments, invasive procedures.
• Continuous need to work closely with others, including staff, patients and visitors.
• Ability to work alone in stressful situations.
• Frequent problem solving, analyzing, use of judgment and critical thinking in regard to lab values, changes of patient condition, environmental factors, flexibility.
• Occasionally able to rotate shifts, work overtime, be on call.
• Continuously plan and direct patient care, manage conflict or difficult situations.

Nice To Haves

• BSN preferred.
• Critical Care units: BLS, ACLS, PALS, ENPC, and TNCC are required within 12 months of hire. After initial certification of ENPC, staff may choose to maintain, though, PALS is required.
• Advanced Certification preferred.
• 6 months to 1 year Critical Care experience in either ED or ICU preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates patient care with multidisciplinary team members to facilitate health promotion and continuity of care in a cost-efficient manner.
• Provides direct nursing care to individuals patients and assists patient family as directed by the nursing and medical plan of care utilizing the nursing process and according to the standards and guidelines established by professional nursing organizations.
• Communicates with the patient, family, and multidisciplinary team members to provide up-to-date information, promotes effective coping behaviors, and evaluates the patient's response to implemented care.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level