DESCRIPTION-

Registered Nurse - Burn Intensive Care Unit

RN - BURN ICU

Full-Time

SIGN ON BONUS OFFERED: $20K - RELOCATION: UP TO $10k

Registered Nurse candidates for the Burn ICU will have the following job responsibilities:

• Conducts systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessments of patient health status from admission or encounter to discharge across the care continuum to ensure patient safety, collaborating with the healthcare team, patient, and family; care addresses all aspects of the individual and family, including age, gender, spiritual, cultural, physical, psychosocial and patient preferences and proactively uses safety surveillance to prevent adverse outcomes.

• Collaboration with health care provider to adequately provide stabilization and fluid resuscitation through continuous monitoring of systemic changes related to burn injury i.e. assess adequate end organ perfusion, compartment syndromes, acute kidney injury, and hemodynamic stability.

• Appropriately assess the severity of the burn injury utilizing evidence-based practices of depth of injury assessment and total body surface area calculations.
• Provide comprehensive wound assessment and management to burn and complex wound injuries incorporating extensive training for debridement techniques, topical burn/wound management, cellular and tissue-based products, and graft and donor site care.
• Independently administers medications per licensure authority, assesses and reassesses the effects of these medications, and documents administration in a timely manner per policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements; consistently adheres to patient safety guidelines regarding all aspects of medication administration.
• Provide ongoing assessment and interventions related to the rehabilitation phase of burn/wound healing, hypertrophic scar development, and contracture prevention.
• In collaboration with patient and family, plans care using current scientific knowledge, theory, and care standards within the nursing interventions and outcomes framework and national patient safety goals; constructs individualized, age-specific plans for optimal patient and family outcomes, as appropriate to the practice setting; incorporates data from the multi-disciplinary care team into the plan of care to assure continuity and appropriate patient teaching.
• In collaboration with patient and family, identifies and prioritizes patient problems based on subjective and objective assessment data, patient safety considerations, patient and family goals and preferences, and nursing interventions and the medical plan of care.
• Implements nursing care interventions to meet patient and family center health care needs. Demonstrates competent skills, appropriate clinical judgments and chain of command to promote patient safety and reach planned care goals and outcomes.
• Competently and consistently assesses, conducts and evaluates the outcomes of patient and family teaching, from admission, or episode of care, to discharge, teaching reflects sensitivity to age, learning needs and cultural background.
• Evaluates care by performing regular and systematic reviews of patient /family responses to interventions; revises the multi-disciplinary plan of care in collaboration with other care Team members to promote desired outcomes; recognizes care variances and takes steps to prevent or intervene with potential or real adverse events to promote safe care.
• Serves as an advocate for the patient and family, demonstrates respect for their rights, responsibilities, and sensitivity to their preferences; prepares the patient and family for discharge including burn/wound dressing changes and burn clinic follow up; obtains feedback to promote positive patient satisfaction outcomes.
• Works collaboratively, with appropriate monitoring and delegation, with unlicensed assistive healthcare providers, per regulatory and legal requirements, assuring safe patient care delivery.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS-

Registered Nurse - Burn Intensive Care Unit

RN - BURN ICU

Full-Time

Registered Nurse candidates for Burn ICU must meet the following minimum job qualifications:

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited baccalaureate program of nursing (preferred)

Experience:

• Minimum 1 year of bedside nursing experience (preferred)

Licensure:

• Will accept a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) from the NCSBN in lieu of a Kentucky Nursing License, per the KBN

Certification:

• BLS (required)
• ACLS and ABLS (preferred or obtained within 1 year)
• CBRN (preferred)