RN; Registered Nurse - Ortho​/Telemetry - St Elizabeth Boardman

RN (Registered Nurse) - Ortho/Telemetry - St Elizabeth Boardman - 7S

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At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.

• Sign on bonuses available (based on experience and shift)
• Day and night shift positions
• Referral program up to $5,000 per referral

The Stepdown Registered Nurse delivers patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifying and determining the priority of patient’s problems/needs, and evaluating the process and outcome of nursing care, all in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team. The RN coordinates, provides, and directs patient teaching activities and coordinates the care provided by health team members.

• Conduct initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyze assessment data, create a plan of care, implement treatment, and evaluate treatment effectiveness
• Administer medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures.
• Serve as point of contact for patients’ care coordination throughout hospital departments.
• Act as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department.
• Serve as a patient advocate in collaboration with spiritual care, palliative care, and ethics.
• Clinically manage patients with multi-system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma.
• Using the AACN Synergy Model, restore, support, promote, rehabilitate, or palliates to maintain the physiologic, psychologic, and psychosocial stability of patients across the lifespan.
• Synthesizes and prioritizes information in order to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient-focused action using clinical judgement and clinical inquiry.
• Anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Respond to the unique needs of the patients and families coping with unanticipated illness or injury and treatment and advocate for their choices in quality of life.

• Current RN license in state they are working or covered by compact (required)
• BLS Basic Life Support (preferred upon hire, must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care)
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred)
• CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse (preferred)
• PCCN Progressive Care Certified Nurse (preferred)
• National Institute of Health (NIH) Stroke Certification (preferred)

Bachelor of Science Nursing (preferred)

• 1 year of RN experience (required)
• 6 months RN experience in an acute care hospital setting (preferred)

• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred)
• Critical Care Course (preferred)

• Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
• Orients, facilitates learning experience, and provides education (based upon quality improvement indicators, outcomes, and implementation) to nursing staff and others.
• Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with the current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and BSMH mission.
• Performs comprehensive assessment of patient’s clinical condition and psychosocial needs of the patient and their supportive resources.
• Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care.
• Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery.
• Assesses patient’s physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes; revises plan of care accordingly.
• Assists patient and family in coping with patient’s illness.
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources.
• Recognizes own…