RN

King's Daughters Medical Center • Ashland, KY

107d

About The Position

Provides total patient care in accordance with physician's orders and individual patient needs in conformance with the recognized standards of nursing practice.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing for Registered Nurses.
• Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (or other eNLC state with multistate privileges) and any other states as applicable.
• Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Achieves and maintains American Heart Association ACLS certification within 90 days of start.
• Achieves and maintains NIH Stroke Scale certification within 90 days from start.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient and/or conducts screenings and documents utilizing standard scales when indicated as required per organization.
• Prioritizes and documents patient problems based on assessed needs/problems in collaboration with patient, family, and health care team.
• Documents changes in patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care/intervention.
• Utilizes organization-wide safe medication practices including, but not limited to the 5 rights of medication administration, barcode scanning and other medication safety processes specific to the unit/department.
• Knows actions and usual dosage, indications and side effects of medications administered.
• Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant other as needed according to the care, treatment services and identified risks specific to the patient and documents patient and/or family understanding.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree