Float RN

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The SWAT staff nurse (RN) is a Licensed Registered Nurse who provides direct nursing care to assigned patient/patient population in various units throughout the hospital. The SWAT staff nurse utilizing the nursing process, plans, and delivers effective patient care within the framework of Driscoll Children’s Hospital vision of excellence and integrated care delivery. The SWAT staff nurse complies within the established standards and clinical guidelines reflective of evidence-based best practice.

The practice of the SWAT staff nurse contributes to creating an environment that is patient-focused-family centered and designed to provide continuation of care and patient self-care competencies across the continuum.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.

• Participates in QA tool development.
• Collects QA data as indicated.
• Identifies trends in patient care outcomes for QA monitoring or staff education.
• Participates in clinical research following specific protocols.
• Ensures safe care by using assertive interactions with the health care team.

• Performs initial and focused assessment.
• Recognizes and reports actual and potential health problems.
• Reports pertinent patient response to interventions.
• Modifies plan of care based on patient assessment.
• Uses chain of command to obtain appropriate health care response as an advocate for the patient.

• Demonstrates flexibility in staffing and scheduling to meet hospital wide unit needs.
• Prioritizes plans organizes and directs care of assigned patients.
• Identifies team conflict and helps to initiate resolution.
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks guidance.
• Supports goals through participation and compliance in unit activities and decision-making.

• Administers medications per clinical guidelines, recognizes abnormal responses to medication therapy and initiates corrective therapy.
• Develops, implements, and individualized plan of care to meet patient needs and diagnoses.
• Intervenes appropriately after correlating clinical picture to therapeutic treatment plan.
• Selects and utilizes appropriate equipment, devices, and supplies based on patient needs and treatment plan.

• Identifies critical changes in patient’s condition and follows through with appropriate actions.
• Ensures the correct functioning of emergency equipment identifies deficits and follows through.
• Assists with changes in hospital wide unit needs during a crisis situation.
• Re-establishes unit function after a crisis situation.
• Participates in review of unit response to crisis situation.

• Identifies barrier to learning, develops and implements discharge plan based onpatient/family needs.
• Incorporates cultural aspects of illness/hospitalization for…