Nurse Registered Weekend Option – Exeter Hospital

Exeter, NH
• Exeter Hospital
• Full-time
• Night When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Reporting to the Nurse Manager/Director of the Unit, provides professional nursing care within assigned unit. Coordinates care planning with other disciplines.$5,000 sign-on bonus available for eligible hires. Bonus amounts for positions under 40 hours per week will be prorated. Per diem roles are not eligible.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Nurse Manager/Director of the Unit, provides professional nursing care within assigned unit. Coordinates care planning with other disciplines.

Major Responsibilities:a. Practice Standards – Adheres to hospital policies, ANA standards of practice, and nursing code of ethics. – Ensures safe, timely and accurate medication and IV administration and transcription. – Successfully uses information technology. – Documentation is accurate, timely, concise, and legible and adheres to departmental policy. – Integrates policies and/or national practice guidelines into patient care planning to achieve desired patient care outcomes.

– Is an expert resource for content development of clinical practice (and therefore policy/procedure review or development).b. Mentoring/Teaching – Precepts new employees – sets goals and assists the new employee in meeting those goals. – Facilitates and encourages an environment for critical thinking. – Makes 1-2 formal presentations (case study, new equipment in service, or education program) to peers at least annually.

– Assists in meeting the learning and professional development needs of others. c. Delegation – Understands team members' roles and delegates tasks and responsibilities appropriate to the licensure, education, and experience of the staff. – Assigns personnel appropriately; understands when follow-up is needed. – Monitors and evaluates appropriate utilization of staff during assigned shift.d. Assessment – Performs a physical assessment and elicits comprehensive patient history on admission appropriate to the setting and patient's condition utilizing accepted practice and documentation standards.

– Performs systematic, ongoing assessments as patient condition and unit standards warrant. – Uses appropriate evidence-based assessment techniques and instruments in collecting pertinent data.e. Prioritization/Organization – Prioritizes established patient care problems and needs. – Makes clinical decisions independently, collaboratively, manages one's own assignment. – Manages own assignment while balancing efficiency and cost. – Recognizes own limitations and seeks collaboration/assistance when needed.

– Modifies plans and re-prioritizes work quickly to handle the unexpected. – Manages multiple demands in prioritizing the patient care needs of an entire unit/dept.

-Adapts routine protocols and resources to demonstrate effective clinical decision making, in situations that are less than predictable.f. Planning/Implementation – Communicates effectively during any patient hand-off. – Identifies and anticipates patient care needs and initiates the plan of care based upon actual or potential health risks or problems to attain mutually agreed upon outcomes. – Identifies patient priorities and discharge planning needs by utilizing assessment, 'best practice' standards, multidisciplinary team and patient input.g. Evaluation – Evaluates and modifies the effectiveness of the plan of care based on mutually agreed upon outcomes and patient feedback.h. Patient/Family Education – Identifies patient education needs and collaborates with other health care professionals to provide appropriate learning opportunities.

– Documents patient education, interventions and patient's…