New Graduate Nurse Vascular Transplant nights

General Summary

Under direct supervision of a registered nurse, participates in the nursing process by delivering care to patients and their families. Duties and responsibilities include direct care activities required in daily nursing practice on the assigned unit. The nurse will utilize this time to learn the institution and nursing practice. It is expected that a nurse in this role successfully meets all requirements of the Departmental Orientation and utilizes the institution’s care delivery and professional practice models as the frame of reference for practicing as a professional nurse.

The nurse participates in activities to develop own practice and to support group practice goals at the unit level. The nurse is accountable to patients, families, and team members for the care provided, and to the nurse manager for the totality of work performance. The nurse must hold to the Service Standards and to the Nursing Mission, Vision and Values.

• After successful completion of an organized staff development program and validation of competence, the nurse graduate may perform and document routine procedures taught within the nurse graduate’s generic nursing program, including but not limited to documenting in the medical record with the initials “NG” after the nurse graduate’s name as credentials.
• Assist the Registered Nurse (RN) in patient assessment by monitoring parameters outlined by the RN in accordance with the Nursing Standards of Practice.
• Identify, record, and report overt findings to the RN concerning the physical and mental condition of a patient in accordance with the Nursing Documentation policy.
• Assist the RN with the implementation of nursing care by performing activities delegated and supervised by the RN such as performing patient assessments, assisting with indwelling and intermittent urinary bladder catheterizations, providing personal hygiene care, positioning, ambulating, transporting, nutritional intake and feeding, obtaining specimens, and performing blood sugar checks.
• Perform routine patient care and administrative procedures on the unit such as dressing changes, calculating body intake and output measures and shift totals.
• Assist with patient admission and discharge by setting up special equipment and recording vital signs.
• Assist with intravenous therapy by gathering equipment for starting IV fluids, preparing the patient as directed by the RN, and monitoring IV rate.
• Verbally report significant changes in a patient’s physical and cognitive condition to the RN.
• Document patient information such as vital signs, intake and output on appropriate forms promptly, clearly and completely as stipulated in the Nursing Documentation policy.
• Assist the RN in patient status evaluation by reporting patient information such as vital signs or response to nursing actions such as pain management interventions.
• The nurse graduate may administer medications under the direct supervision of an RN but may not administer medications independently.
• Perform CPR as needed.
• Follow institutional infection control guidelines.
• Follow and implement established institutional/unit policies and procedures to ensure patient safety.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, visitors and other members of the health care team, demonstrating positive guest relations skills and treating patient information confidentially.
• Perform general support services for the unit and patient, including running unit errands, procuring equipment, and taking and relaying messages accurately and timely.

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Maryland, or eligibility to practice through Compact state agreements as outlined by the MD Board of Nursing, is required.
• If the graduate is completing the initial examination, testing must be completed within 90 days of the date the graduate completed the nursing program.
• Must meet all applicable federal, state, and local professional requirements.
• Current AHA BLS certification required.
• Less than 12 months of nursing experience.
• Matriculate into a BSN program within five years of hire date required.
• Basic computer skills are required.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.