Rn Jobs in Port St Lucie

About The Position

Requirements

• College diploma in Nursing.
• Licensed Registered Professional Nurse (RN) in Illinois.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days.
• Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) training within 1 year.
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) certification within 1 year.
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification within 3 years.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association within 1 year.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 1 year.
• Trauma Nurse Specialist (TNS) certification within 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Promote evidence-based practice through the nursing process, protocols, and procedures.
• Assess patients through interviews, observation, and physical assessment of problems and outcomes.
• Develop individualized plans of care collaboratively with patients, families, and the healthcare team.
• Use appropriate interventions to achieve expected patient outcomes.
• Evaluate and document patient progress toward outcomes and goals throughout the shift.
• Modify plans of care based on evaluations and changes in patient condition.
• Complete required documentation, including patient charts and event reports.
• Demonstrate accountability for personal practice by seeking resources and continuing professional development.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of equipment and troubleshoot problems.
• Share clinical knowledge through informal teaching and respond to others’ learning needs.
• Perform bedside laboratory testing and related quality control in accordance with provider orders and hospital procedures and policies.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary patient care and use additional resources when necessary.
• Analyze clinical situations systematically and obtain resources or address problems to meet patient needs and expected outcomes.
• Manage assigned non-complex and some complex patients, with some turnover in assignment.
• Identify and use team resources to address problems or needs.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to organize care from admission through discharge according to the care plan and expected outcomes.
• Advocate for patients with physicians when necessary.
• Consider cultural, age-specific, gender, and developmental factors when teaching patients about procedures, illness, and the hospital experience.
• Promote patient safety by following policies and procedures and adhering to National Patient Safety Goals.
• Consult appropriate hospital resources to provide specialized education and use the SVI patient education system as a resource for patients and families.
• Participate in data collection, analysis, problem solving, process improvement, and patient satisfaction efforts.
• Ensure care is consistent with standards of care, evidence-based practices, National Patient Safety Goals, core measures, and other unit or hospital quality initiatives.
• Follow up promptly and efficiently on patient and family requests and needs, and anticipate those needs.
• Encourage coworkers to achieve excellent customer satisfaction and use organizational service excellence standards.
• Serve on unit-based councils.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers.