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Job Title: Medical Nursing RN
Locations: Pikeville, KY 41501
Duration: 08 weeks Extension
Job Summary
Provides professional nursing care to assigned patients utilizing the nursing process, within established standards and practices for assigned patients.
Essential Functions
Locations: Pikeville, KY 41501
Duration: 08 weeks Extension
Job Summary
Provides professional nursing care to assigned patients utilizing the nursing process, within established standards and practices for assigned patients.
Essential Functions
- Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes to ensure optimal patient care as indicated.
- Performs a head-to-toe assessment on all patients and re-assessments as per policy.
- Provides individualized, age-specific care that supports hemeostatic regulation, hemodynamic monitoring and physiologic functioning.
- Maintains accurate and continued nursing documentation including patient histories, conditions, treatments, responses, and assessment of changes.
- Treats patients and their families with respect and dignity. Maintains patient confidentiality. Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic and religious/spiritual needs of patients and families. Functions as patient advocate.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and the skills necessary to provide age-appropriate care to the patients served.
- Able to interpret data about the patient’s status in order to identify each patient’s age specific needs and provide care needed by the patient group.
- Interacts professionally with patient and family and involves patient and family in the formation of an individualized and mutually agreed upon plan of care.
- Reviews/revises/updates/resolves plan of care daily.
- Formulates a teaching plan based on identified learning needs and evaluates the effectiveness of learning; includes family in teaching, as appropriate.
- Supervises other health care staff involved in patient care. Allocates and monitors the work of others.
- Demonstrates the ability to assist physicians with procedures in the department.
- Responds promptly to changes in workload as necessary to achieve optimal productivity and efficiency.
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of performance improvement activities to improve patient outcomes, processes, and the work of the environment.
- Functions as a preceptor to orient new employees.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meeting, staff meetings, and workshops; shows responsibility for own professional practice and on-going education.
- Maintains operation of patient care equipment to include mechanical adjustments.
- Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and the proper functioning of equipment.
- Assists in cost containment through the appropriate ordering and conserving of supplies and equipment.
- Demonstrates an ability to be flexible, organized and function under stressful situations.
- Meets all departmental specific competencies.
- Performs housekeeping duties when needed.
- Assists with transportation of patients when needed.
- Adheres to dress code.
- Adheres to medical center policies addressing infection control, safety, and personnel guidelines.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
- Serves as team leader and role model for other staff members.
- Associate’s degree in nursing required. Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
- RN license required. CPR required
- BLS, ACLS, NIHSS EKG required.
- 2 years’ experience required, 5 years preferred.
- Travel Experience Required.
Salary : $50 - $55