Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Part-Time, thru 3rd

Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Part-Time

Apply for the role at Henry Ford Health in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

• Part-Time, 7am-7:30pm Monday thru Friday & every 3rd weekend

• $6,000

• Use independent professional judgment, analytical skills, and the nursing process to provide a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients.
• Within the framework of the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice, demonstrate clinical competence, compassion, and customer service orientation; focus on process and outcomes, and cost-consciousness when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care provided to patients.
• Provide patient care that reflects a respect for patient's rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs. Assess patient/family needs for information and education across the continuum, plan and implement patient teaching, and evaluate effectiveness of educational interventions.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Complete assessment for risk factors including fall, skin breakdown, VTE, and aspiration; initiate appropriate initiatives such as the Skin Bundle and Fall Prevention Plan.
• Initiate problems and outcomes list (plan-of-care) based on medical diagnosis and patient needs.
• Monitor, document, and report patient response to interventions and progress toward outcomes.
• Document nursing interventions (NIC) and progress toward outcomes (NOC); patient education; and evaluation every shift, as required.
• Educate patient regarding treatment plan, safety measures, medications, and self-care as indicated; document education activities on shift assessment flowsheet and plan of care.
• Review discharge plans/instructions with patient prior to discharge, including signs/symptoms to watch for after leaving the hospital.
• Ensure that core discharge instructions are given to all CHF patients.
• Document patient care according to established documentation guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill application of basic nursing procedures – dressing change, catheterization, NG tube insertion, suctioning.
• Initiate standing orders appropriately; implement/complete medical interventions as ordered.
• Assist with all patient care activities including activities of daily living and provide other services as required for patient comfort, safety, and well-being.
• Assess and initiate interventions to prevent/minimize patient skin breakdown.
• Follow clinical practice guidelines and procedures as written.
• Establish and maintain peripheral IV therapy; obtain body fluid specimens; perform blood capillary glucose monitoring.
• Administer medications, IVs, and blood products according to established policies and procedures.
• Prepare patients for surgery or other invasive procedures according to established guidelines.
• Perform or assist with procedures according to established standards of care and nursing practice.
• Utilize equipment based on manufacturers' instructions and established nursing procedure; correctly operate and troubleshoot IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, patient beds, as applicable.
• Monitor patient responses/responding to changing patient situations.
• Regularly review work in progress to ensure that treatments, medications, and tests ordered are expeditiously carried out and documented.
• Review patient medical record/reports and confer with physician regarding treatment plans; routinely check chart for new orders.
• Monitor patient physiologic parameters including vital signs, lab work, I&O, blood glucose; recognize and report meaningful changes and intervene appropriately.
• Monitor presence and intensity of patient pain on admission and at regular intervals.
• Inform patient about pain relief and management measures; administer pain medication or alternative interventions as indicated.
• Recognize acute changes in respiratory, neurologic, cardiac, or urinary status and respond appropriately with direct intervention and physician/SWAT notification.
• Utilize SBAR tool or other standardized…