RN PRN Free Standing ER Lake Pleasant Nights

HonorHealth•Peoria, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional nursing care guided by ANA standards and the Code of Ethics. The role includes assessing patients, developing and implementing individualized care plans, administering treatments and medications, monitoring and documenting patient progress, and coordinating care with physicians and other healthcare clinicians. The RN also educates patients and families about illnesses, injuries, treatment, and home care, and provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides when appropriate. The RN supports the development of colleagues and students through precepting, role-modeling, and assistance with competency requirements. This position is at HonorHealth Complete Care – Lake Pleasant, a free-standing emergency room in Peoria, Arizona. The night shift runs from 1900 to 0730, with a minimum requirement of two shifts every two weeks. The posting prefers prior ER RN experience for free-standing ERs. Pay is $47.50 per hour plus a night-shift differential. The RN collects and analyzes health data, identifies expected outcomes, and develops, implements, evaluates, and revises evidence-based plans of care. Care should be individualized, family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant. The RN initiates treatments and medications, including emergency and resuscitative measures in accordance with standing orders and applicable policies, and considers safety, effectiveness, and cost when delivering care. The RN collaborates with patients, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues; applies ethical principles; maintains professional knowledge and practice standards; and contributes to improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.

Requirements

Associates degree or diploma in nursing required before start.
Diploma and ADN hires must complete a BSN within 60 months of hire, or have at least five years of Registered Nurse experience at the time of hire; experience may be in direct patient care or indirect RN roles.
More than 10 months of med-surg or acute specialty setting experience required.
Current Arizona nursing license or compact-state licensure upon hire; Arizona licensure must be obtained within 60 days of hire.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required upon hire, with unit-specific certification as required by specialty area.
Minimum schedule of two shifts every two weeks.
For float positions, one year of RN experience is required.

Nice To Haves

Prior ER RN experience for free-standing ERs preferred.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
National certification for the unit-specific patient population preferred.

Responsibilities

Collect and analyze patient health data systematically, prioritizing according to immediate condition or needs and involving the family.
Determine nursing diagnoses and develop, implement, evaluate, and revise individualized, family-centered plans of care.
Identify patient-specific expected outcomes and develop evidence-based plans that support continuity of care.
Implement care-plan interventions, including treatments, medications, emergency measures, and resuscitative measures in accordance with standing orders, policies, and procedures.
Provide care that addresses patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cultural needs.
Evaluate patient progress and document observations, interventions, therapeutic measures, monitoring data, and other relevant information.
Continuously evaluate the quality and effectiveness of care plans and nursing practice to support high-quality, cost-effective patient outcomes.
Apply professional nursing standards, statutes, regulations, department policies, and ethical principles; maintain current nursing knowledge.
Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and multidisciplinary healthcare providers in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care.
Contribute to peer and student development through positive role-modeling, precepting, mentoring, and assistance with competency skills.
Develop and evaluate evidence-based standards of care and use research to identify and implement improvements to nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Use resources effectively and efficiently while considering safety, effectiveness, and cost in patient care.