Responsibilities: 

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition
• Collects, documents, analyzes, and interprets data and other information from healthcare team members
• Communicates nursing interventions, expected outcomes and the time frames for expected completion to other members of the hospital health care team
• Functions as a resource to the health care team members in planning for patient’s discharge
• Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment
• Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education
• Compares expected and actual outcomes of care and identifies deviation from the plan of care

Minimum Requirements: 

• Current Registered Nurse License for the state of Illinois
• Two years of recent acute critical care experience is required
• Current BLS card through American Heart Association
• Current ACLS card through American Heart Association