RN Emergency Mids - Tempe

Job Overview

Primary City/State: Tempe Medical Center

Category: Skilled Nursing

Shift: Night )

Department:
Emergency Department

Bonus Available

Requirements: 2 years ED experience

The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served. The RN records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.

The RN establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, including activities such as administering medication with careful dosage checks and avoiding interactions, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing intravenous (IV) lines for fluid, medication, blood, and blood products, administering therapies and treatments, observing the patient and recording those observations, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians. The RN teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explain post-treatment and home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and therapy.

The RN provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegates when appropriate. The RN supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precepts new hires and students, and assists staff and students to seek and complete tasks required to achieve competency. The RN may continue to improve nursing management and patient care as required.

• Possess the knowledge of how to collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs and involving the family.
• Analyze the assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilize the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems, and develop plans of care that are individualized, evidence‑based, and ensure continuity of care.
• Implement interventions in the plan of care, including initiating treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on standing orders, policies, and procedures.
• Provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social‑cultural needs of the patient and family using a family‑centered approach to care delivery.
• Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, and multi‑system monitoring data in a retrievable form.
• Ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that patient outcomes are maintained and enhanced, promoting cost‑effective, high‑quality healthcare.
• Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, relevant statutes, regulations, and system policies; maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice, enhancing knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery; interact and contribute to professional development of peers and other health care providers.
• Develop and evaluate standards of care for patients that are evidence‑based; identify changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence‑based approach and facilitate the initiation, adoption, and adaptation to change.
• Use evidence‑based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes; support the integration of research into practice.
• Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and…