Emergency Department Registered Nurse

Loyal Source Government Services is looking for two (2) full-time Emergency Department Registered Nurses to provide services to Dayton VA Medical Center in Dayton, OH.

The Emergency Department Registered Nurse (RN) will perform a full range of medical care duties in support of the Veteran community at the Dayton VA Medical Center. Registered Nurses are responsible for delivering high-quality, compassionate, patient-centered care while adhering to established clinical standards, policies, and procedures.

$ 37.60 / hr + $5.42 H&W Fringe

• Perform critical care nursing to Intensive Care Unit patients.
• Performs scrub and circulating duties in the Emergency Department.
• Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.
• Assess patients and plan appropriate nursing care.
• Document plan of care and care given in patient’s medical record.
• Verify transcription of physician’s orders, no verbal orders are to be accepted
• Carry out prescribed physician’s orders and document inpatient medical records.
• Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
• Re-assess patient’s condition and revise plans of care based on identified nursing problem.
• Administer medications and Intravenous (IV) therapies.
• Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of most commonly used emergency drugs and their location on crash cart.
• Assess and document patient response to medication that have been administered.
• Be able to interpret cardiac rhythms and their implications.
• Reorganize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Instruct patient/family regarding prescribed medications/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Assess patient/family knowledge level, implement plan of instructions and record patient/family demonstrated level of understanding.
• Operate defibrillator, EKG machines and cardiac monitor and other emergency technical equipment.
• Participate in discharge planning, as appropriate.
• Be able to initiate life saving measures in the absence of physicians.
• Assure content and correctness of a prepared report and sign the document to validate its content.
• Maintain neat, personal appearance and maintain professional decorum.
• Consistently, apply VA customer service standards, demonstrating helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct at all times.
• Respect patient’s rights, including but not limited to visual and auditory privacy.
• May accept a verbal order in compliance with the facility policy.
• Intake and output are assessed every shift, and more frequently if indicated by specific standard nursing drug care.
• Reviews all laboratory data, and electronic medical records.
• Shall perform central line and ventilator care in compliance with LSCVAMC policy.
• Perform skin assessment and initiate measures to prevent Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU).
• Ensures that medication orders from the previous shift have been noted and either carried out or transcribed onto the medical records appropriately.
• Carry out prescribed physician orders and document in patient’s medical record.
• Recognize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies and assist with surgical/diagnostic procedures.
• Care for patients with a variety of catheters and prostheses.
• Perform skin assessment and initiate measures to prevent HAPU.
• Participate in discharge planning.
• Be able to initiate life saving measures in the absence of a physician.
• Maintain neat and clean personal appearance with professional decorum.
• Consistently, apply VA customer service standards, demonstrating helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct at all times.
• Respect patient rights, including but not limited to visual and auditory privacy.
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