Registered Nurse; PACU

PQC is accepting applications for experienced, civilian Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Registered Nurses (RN) to work onsite alongside the prestigious Department of Defense healthcare elite at the Walter Reed National Medical Center (Bethesda, Maryland).

Duty Hours Evening Shift ($2.00 hourly differential) 4 ten hour shifts per week

• Shall be able to read, write, speak and understand English well enough to effectively communicate with all patients and other health care providers.
• Shall be knowledgeable of equipment and supply terminology and skill sufficient to identify and use necessary equipment and supplies properly and to communicate proper use with nurses, medical staff, patients, and family members.
• Shall be sufficiently skilled to teach patients proper self-care and to motivate patients and family members to continue the procedures for promoting rapid healing.
• Shall be knowledgeable and possess skills necessary to provide care appropriate to any age-related needs of the patients. The contract RN shall demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the appropriate patient population served: infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric (>65).
• Possessing knowledge of a wide range of medical disorders/conditions, diagnostic studies and treatments related to prevention, and detection of illnesses in adults, is desirable.
• Be knowledgeable in professional care theories, principles, practices, and procedures to perform nursing assignments of moderate difficulty and experience in assessing adult and geriatric patients, as appropriate.
• Possess knowledge of computer operations and proficiency in the use of basic word processing, data entry and automated medical records.
• Assists the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) and Trauma Medical Director (TMD) in developing and maintaining a comprehensive Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (TACS) Program.
• Ensures timely and accurate concurrent and retrospective reviews of trauma patients’ (civilian and military) medical records for inclusion criteria, data element abstraction, and identification of complications and/or performance improvement filters for further review by the Trauma Acute Care Surgery team, peer review, and performance improvement processes.
• Adheres to required definitions and/or guidelines for data entry into database computer applications with 95% compliance on quarterly audits to ensure inter-rater reliability
• Serves as liaison to the multidisciplinary team and works collaboratively in support of the TACS Program.
• Provides data analysis and trends related to continuum of care of trauma and acute care surgery patients through continuous review of medical records, focused audits, and case reviews.
• Assists in facilitating meetings such as Joint Trauma System weekly case reviews, generating meeting minutes, pulling reports, or follow up on designated action items.
• Assist the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) with Program Component Coordination such as, ensuring multimedia sources are available across the continuum of care such as the Video Teleconferences (Weekly, Global and VA) and the multidisciplinary meetings.
• Participates in Multidisciplinary Trauma Rounds as designated by TPM and TMD.
• Provides weekly Trauma Round notes in patient’s electronic health record from multidisciplinary discharge planning meetings as prescribed by departmental/ hospital policy.
• Attend departmental and/or hospital committee meetings as designated by TPM or TMD.
• Provides education and training for departmental or hospital personnel as directed by TPM or TMD.
• Serves as an alternate for the Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator as directed by TPM for such activities as pulling standardized/ad hoc reports,…