Description

Job Duties (include, but are not limited to the following):

1. • Completes comprehensive assessment of inpatients upon admission and change in condition.
2. • Completes a focused assessment of patients each shift.
3. • Assures the completion of focused assessment throughout shift by Licensed Vocational Nurses and graduate nurses.
4. • Makes patient assignments in accordance with identified patient needs and documented competencies of nursing personnel.
5. • Establish, implement, evaluate and document patient plan of care and services.
6. • Provide education to staff, patient and family members promoting improvements in health care delivery.
7. • Administers transfusions of blood and blood products and patient medication administration as needed.
8. • Advocate for patient.
9. • Triage, assess and record patient’s history, signs and symptoms. 
10. • Evaluate and report patient status according to standardized format.
11. • Perform point of care diagnostic tests, such as, EKG and glucometer readings.
12. • Continually monitor to assure medical provider’s orders for the patient’s care are being carried out.
13. • Inform medical provider of any changes in patient status.
14. • Provides oversight of nursing personnel (and EMS personnel, if relevant) and all clinical care provided.
15. • Interact with patients, family members, medical providers and ancillary personnel on a continuous basis.
16. • Carry out procedures for admitting, transferring or discharging patients.
17. • Knows and complies with practice standards of the state board of nursing.
18. • Miscellaneous duties as assigned requested or required.

Working Environment:

Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, ascend and descend stairs, possess ability to handle, finger or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms. 

Frequently be able to lift 25 pounds from the floor to waist level and may occasionally be required to assist moving adult patients. Specific vision abilities include close vision and the ability to clearly focus vision. Specific hearing abilities using the stethoscope for breath sounds and Korotkoff sounds.

Requirements

Qualifications: 

• Current Registered Nurse licensure
• Entry Level Degree or Diploma in Nursing
• Life Support (BLS) certificate
• Successful completion of the following courses:
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), obtained within six (6) months from date of hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), obtained within six (6) months from date of hire OR 
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC), obtained within six (6) months from date of hire
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), per Trauma Rules obtain within eighteen (18) months from date of hire OR
• Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN), per Trauma Rules obtain within eighteen (18) months from date of hire
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Basic preferred