RN-Critical Care

• JOB SUMMARY

• Provides total patient care for the pre, intra and post-procedural patient in accordance with physician's orders and individual patient needs in conformance with the recognized standards of nursing practice.

• DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Performs patient safety initiatives while performing various roles, including circulating and scrubbing, throughout the procedural process .

• Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:
• Assesses patient and/or conducts screenings and documents utilizing standard scales when indicated as required per organization.
• Documents changes in patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care/intervention.
• Utilizes organization-wide safe medication practices including, but not limited to the 5 rights of medication administration, barcode scanning and other medication safety processes specific to the unit/department. Knows actions and usual dosage, indications and side effects of medications administered.
• Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant other as needed according to the care, treatment services and identified risks specific to the patient and documents patient and/or family understanding.

• EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum requirement:

  • Graduate from an accredited school of nursing for Registered Nurses.
  • Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any other states as applicable.
  • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
  • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association ACLS within 90 days of start.

  • Preferred qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

  • WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Constantly works near moving mechanical parts

• Constantly exposed toblood and/or body fluids andinfection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).

• Frequently required to walk and move about.
• Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
• Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
• Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.

Location: King's Daughters · Cardiovascular Operating Room

Schedule: Full Time, Rotating