Rn Jobs in St Cloud

About The Position

Requirements

• Current Pennsylvania RN nursing license, or qualifying current licensure under the Nursing Licensure Compact as described in the posting.
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Act 34 clearance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain nursing-care standards and implement Hospital and Nursing Department policies and procedures, including their philosophy, mission, and values.
• Assess patients’ conditions and nursing needs; determine outcomes and prescribe appropriate nursing actions to address physical, psychological, social, rehabilitative, and discharge-planning needs.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to meet individual patients’ outcome needs.
• Report pertinent patient observations and reactions to appropriate personnel and document them accurately and concisely.
• Assign nursing care and other duties to team members in accordance with patient needs and personnel capabilities and qualifications.
• Administer medications and perform treatments for assigned patients.
• Direct, supervise, and evaluate nursing care provided to patients.
• Assist physicians with special tests and procedures, such as thoracentesis and lumbar tap.
• Use supplies economically and ensure equipment is maintained in a clean and safe manner.
• Participate in orientation of new personnel and performance evaluations of nursing staff.
• Assist team members with patient care or provide direct care when professional nursing skills and judgment are needed.
• Coordinate patient nursing care when patients are scheduled for therapy or procedures in other departments.
• Maintain communication and use teaching opportunities with patients and other significant individuals.
• Assist with or initiate emergency measures for sudden adverse developments, such as cardiac arrest.
• Participate actively in committees focused on improving nursing care.
• Provide care and services appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Participate in surveillance and support the patient-safety culture; report patient-safety concerns and events.
• Demonstrate accountability and contribute to patient safety.
• Assess and monitor patients’ pain levels and responses, and educate patients about pain management and its impact on outcomes.
• Perform telemetry monitoring as required; nurses floated to the ICU for telemetry monitoring must have completed a basic arrhythmia class and competency.
• Perform hourly rounding on assigned patients.
• In PACU, ICU, SPU, or OB assignments, demonstrate knowledge of anesthetic agents, narcotic analgesics, reversal drugs, and other medications used in post-anesthesia care; understand surgical procedures and postoperative implications; and recognize related complications and when to notify the surgeon or anesthesia team.
• In ER or ICU assignments, recognize arrhythmias and perform 12-lead EKGs.
• In ICU assignments, function as Code Team leader when required, perform defibrillation, monitor vital signs via central and arterial lines, and care for patients on ventilators.
• In oncology assignments, demonstrate knowledge of disease processes, chemotherapy agents and administration, medi-port/port-a-cath assessment, treatment monitoring and side effects, vesicant and non-vesicant chemotherapy administration, infiltration and extravasation treatment, toxic-spill management and chemotherapy-waste disposal, and pain assessment and reassessment.
• In the inpatient geriatric behavioral health unit, use knowledge of psychodynamics and therapeutic processes to intervene effectively and resolve milieu problems; communicate those processes appropriately.
• In the inpatient geriatric behavioral health unit, apply knowledge of growth and development, psychopathology, and psychosocial systems in assessments and nursing care plans; participate in staffing and case conferences; and recognize and respond appropriately to symptoms and behavior.
• In the inpatient geriatric behavioral health unit, set appropriate limits in a caring and consistent manner while avoiding power struggles, escalation, and manipulation.
• In the inpatient geriatric behavioral health unit, respect patient integrity by maintaining confidentiality and patient rights.

Benefits

• $20,000 sign-on bonus for nurses with more than one year of experience.
• $7,500 sign-on bonus for Graduate Nurses and nurses with one year or less of experience.