Nurse; Clinical​/Emergency

Position: Nurse (Clinical/Emergency)
Overview

Nurse (Clinical/Emergency)

Fort Carson, CO:
Located just south of Colorado Springs, Ft. Carson combines scenic beauty, pleasant residential areas, and cultural activities to satisfy every taste. It is an unusually well-rounded military community which offers a variety of recreational and cultural opportunities. World-class ski resorts are available within a short 2 1/2 hour drive, golf courses and biking trails are available on the installation as well as in the surrounding community.

Numerous colleges and universities are available for continuing education.

(Fort Carson Landscape)

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Responsibilities

MAJOR DUTIES

Serves as a clinical nurse in the Emergency Department providing the full range of professional nursing care and treatment to a wide variety of patients, from newborn to geriatrics, arriving in critical condition as a result of trauma, suicide attempts, cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, drug overdose, falls, etc. Provides continuous observation and monitoring and must intervene to prevent complications to restore hemodynamic stability within hospital and EMS transport to higher care.

Provides coordination and management of patient care to patients and families within a continuum of care. Performs triage within the scope of practice. Delegates patient care activities as appropriate within a care management assignment. Functions within professional and hospital standards. (LPNs and Medics work under the supervision of a Clinical Nurse)
Assists the physician in the performance of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and other specialized procedures to include insertion of chest drainage tubes, tracheotomies, emergency thoracotomies, gastric lavage, suturing lacerations, etc. Independently recognizes life threatening situations and acts to correct these. Administers oxygen, intravenous fluids, blood transfusions and all types of medications during emergent events to include intravenous, intraosseus, subcutaneous, intramuscular, by mouth and rectal routes.

Operates specialized medical equipment such as resuscitators, defibrillators, electrocardiographs, oxygen apparatus, intravenous pumps, rapid intravenous infusers, and infant servo-warmer. Implements physician orders and initiates a nursing plan of care for individual patients. Assesses patient status and documents appropriately. Keeps physician informed of any changes or need for additional treatment. Changes dressings, prep wounds, removes sutures, inserts urinary catheters, inserts oro and nasogastric tubes, and applies splints and dressings.

Collects urine, stool, sputum, genital, and blood specimens. Prepares specimens for lab and transports as required. Arranges transfer of patients to appropriate inpatient care areas upon release by physician. Arranges transfer of patients to higher levels of care. Accompanies critical patients as deemed by physician to higher levels of care. Performs nursing skills within a ground ambulance. While accompanying patient on ground ambulance, communicates via radio to higher levels of care.

Trained as an ACLS provider, holds primary responsibility for critical patients during transfers within the medical facility.

As a Charge Nurse in the Emergency Department, performs a variety of administrative duties and data collection as an extension of and in support of the Clinical Head Nurse. Makes nursing care assignments to various skill levels of professional and ancillary health care personnel. Assigns staff to patient care duties based on patient condition/status, expertise and scope of practice. Monitors and oversees staff performance to ensure work is accomplished in an acceptable, safe, and timely manner.

Ensures that patient responses to treatment and medical/surgical emergencies are appropriately documented. Verifies physician orders written during tour of duty. Advises attending physicians of significant changes in patient condition in a timely manner. Responsible for narcotic accountability. Monitors and oversees staff during orientation/preceptorship periods. Responsible for all nursing operations in the Emergency Department in the absence of the Head Nurse.

Makes independent triage decisions based on assessment and management skills for all patients entering the Emergency Department.

As a staff nurse in the Emergency Department, performs nursing triage within the ambulatory care arena. Makes independent triage decisions based on assessment and management skills for all ambulatory patients seen in the Emergency Center. Screens patient health history, complaints, medications, and…