Registered Nurse; RN - PHP​/IOP - PRN

Schedule

PRN – as needed coverage when clinic is open (M‑F). No set hours or consistent days. Typical shift – 8am to 4:30pm.

Open to supporting both Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls locations.

The registered nurse (RN, RNII, RNIII) performs professional nursing activities in the care of patients so they may achieve, regain, and maintain maximum physical, emotional or social functions. Role functions are governed by the Nurse Practice Act, the Administrative Code in the state of employment, professional nursing standards, and the policies and procedures of Rogers Memorial Hospital (Rogers). The registered nurse seeks consultation with other health‑team members as needed, and, in conjunction with the Patient Accounts department, provides patient information to ensure compliance with federal and state statutes.

• Complete initial assessments and documentation as required.
• Collect, record, and analyze pertinent data for admission assessment according to hospital policy, including patient strengths and limitations that address health goals, cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors that may impact treatment, patient needs at discharge, medical/physical status, history of medication compliance, reactions and current schedule, and age‑specific data regarding the patient’s individual needs.
• Involve the patient’s support systems (family, friends) in assessment and documentation; observe and document the patient’s interaction with family and friends as it is pertinent to treatment; obtain assessment data from support systems, when appropriate, regarding the patient’s history and individual needs.
• Act as an advocate for patients:
  • Explain patient’s rights so they can understand and obtain appropriate signatures.
  • Provide the patient with information and obtain their signature on necessary consents.
  • Use knowledge of patient rights and responsibilities to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.
  • Assist in patient orientation process.
  • Know and employ hospital policies and procedures regarding unit safety, necessity of gown/contraband search on admission, and carry out the process respectfully.
  • Remain sensitive to individual patient/family stressors upon admission while providing pertinent unit information.
• Initiate and update treatment plan and documentation as required:
  • Participate in planning and modifying the patient’s plan of care.
  • Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing the patient’s treatment plan and multidisciplinary assessment for assigned patients.
  • Participate in care conferences (staffings) and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan to others at the staffing.
  • Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating it as indicated.
  • Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem.
  • Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated.
• On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document information collected in nursing interview, observation, physical assessment and diagnostic data, and confer with other health‑care professionals as appropriate:
  • Review current lab data and follow up with doctor.
  • Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions, as indicated.
  • Identify potential for self‑abuse, suicidality and/or assaultive behavior.
  • Develop age‑appropriate interventions for the patient’s plan of care.
  • Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly.
• Implement patient care:
  • Demonstrate safe and correct medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
  • Maintain current knowledge of medication purpose and effects, documented correctly.
  • Accurately transcribe and implement physician medication orders.
  • Maintain awareness of monitoring expected and unexpected medication effects, including adverse reactions, drug‑drug or drug‑food interactions, or other unexpected consequences.
  • Regularly conduct and document patient education about medications.
  • Maintain current knowledge about new pharmacologic products and new uses/therapeutic action.
• Identify potential patient care problems, abrupt changes, or impending instability in the patient’s condition and exercise leadership to intervene appropriately and prevent adverse outcomes:
  • Use appropriate de‑escalation techniques: quiet room, locked seclusion, restraints.
  • Re‑evaluate safety level.
  • Identify alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
  • Identify ext.