Registered Nurse FSER Plaistow PRN

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Position Summary:

The Emergency Department nurse is expected to assist in providing total care of the patient before, during and after treatment. This includes providing physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural support while providing necessary equipment and supplies for all emergency procedures. Cases may range from the very minor to the mortally ill or traumatized. Nurses will be proficient in triaging according to the Emergency Nursing Association triage category systems and maintain excellent assessment and reassessment to determine the response to medications and treatments.

The Emergency Department nurse is expected to work well as a team member, be flexible and able to process much information quickly and correctly and to develop a care plan to meet the emergent needs of the patient and family.

Essential Functions include but are not limited to:

Incorporates appropriate assessments and intervention skills in all interactions and delivery of nursing care

Communicates with patients, team members and management in an accurate, timely manner

Documents in a complete, timely manner; appropriately uses computer charting/ ordering

Applies critical thinking skills and considers alternatives

Organizes multitask workload, prioritizes tasks, organizes/delivers care for multiple patient assignment

Develops and maintains human care relationships

Acknowledges the impact illness/hospitalization has on patients and families; adapts care management for diverse populations and environments’ advocates for needs of clients; provides care in an ethical and legal manner

Recognizes the importance of teamwork among care providers

Acknowledges limits of experience and capability and requests assistance appropriately

Verbalizes scope of practice for self and others, delegates and assigns care, coordinates care within multi-disciplinary team

Incorporates teaching in delivery of care with a focus on health promotion

Provides information to patient, assesses for barriers to learning, uses colleagues as a resource as appropriate, provides counseling about health behaviors

Applies know of the patient populations served within unit; provides age-appropriate care, applies knowledge of expected norms in planning care (i.e. VS, lab values, assessment, etc.) applies new data to improve care

Applies new data to improve care

Integrates technical, psychological, social, intellectual and physical skills

Demonstrates the unit-specific skills required for assigned role and service area

Maintains required competencies based on high-risk/low-volume/problem-prone areas

Promotes internal and external customer satisfaction

Builds and promotes a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement

Works as scheduled and is compliant with Attendance and Tardiness Policy

Daily operations of POCT. This includes but it not limited to: decision making, response to problems, error identification and corrective action.

Perform quality control and maintenance on laboratory analyzers and POCT.

Preform laboratory testing and POCT applicable to the FSED

All other duties as assigned

• • Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
  • Basic Cardiac Life Support
  • ACLS, PALS and CPI within 30 days of start
  • TNCC preferred
  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
  • (RN) Registered Nurse state of NH; or valid compact state licensure
  • Associate Degree in Nursing required; BSN preferred
  • Emergency Nurse Pediatric Cour, or PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
  • Minimum 2 years critical care nursing experience

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