RN - Long Term Care - Weekend Days program

JOB TITLE:

REGISTERED NURSE DEPARTMENT: LONG TERM CAREHOURS & SHIFT REQUIREMENTS:
Full time – Weekend days. Work 24 get paid for 36. 6a - 6p Saturday & Sunday.

GENERAL SUMMARY The Registered Nurse is a professional practitioner who functions as both a caregiver and care manager. In the caregiver role, the RN assumes responsibility for a group of patients for a designated time frame, implementing the nursing process and therapeutic use of self, as directed by the physician and interdisciplinary team. In the role of care manager, the RN directs and oversees the care of other caregivers (nurses and non-nurses) via delegation, coordination, supervision, validation, and evaluation.

GIBSON AREA HOSPITAL & HEALTH SERVICES MISSION STATEMENT To provide personalized, professional healthcare services to the residents of the communities we serve.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Performs assessment and data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on the patient’s physiologic and cognitive status.
2. Formulates or individualizes a predefined, goal consistent and continuous manner by utilization and adherence to pre-determined standards which define the structure, process, and desired patient outcomes of nursing process.
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of care given by self and all health care team members. Evaluates contribution of systems, environment, and instrumentation in processing patients toward desired outcomes.
4. Demonstrates competency in select psychomotor skills adhering to predefined written procedures.
5. Identifies patient learning needs and readiness for learning. Implements patient and family instruction to meet self-care needs as defined in standards of care and patient teaching protocols.
6. Performs documentation responsibilities following all existing structure standards and guidelines for forms used in the division of Nursing and specially assigned areas.
7. Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to patient rights, as identified within the institution.
8. Functions with an awareness of and adherence to safety requirements as identified in existing standards.
9. Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
10. Demonstrates applied knowledge base in areas of structure standards, patient care resources/referrals, protocols, pertinent drugs, standards of care, and significant lab values.
11. Demonstrates an awareness of self-responsibility and accountability for own professional practice within the Illinois Practice Act.
12. Participates actively in staff development activities by sharing knowledge with others and using appropriate teaching/learning strategies to assist peers.
13. Demonstrates self-directed learning and participation in continuing education to meet own professional development.
14. Seeks validation of knowledge base, skill level, and decision-making as necessary and assertively requests guidance in areas of question.
15. Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of professional practice and patient care and strives to manages situations in a reduced-risk manner.
16. Participates in development and attainment of unit and department of nursing goals.
17. Participates in development of standards at both the generic and unit specific levels. Demon states an attitude of acceptance/importance of standards in all professional practices. Strives to achieve minimum compliance levels and uses “professional modification” measures with sound clinical judgement.
18. Actively involves self in Performance Improvement (PI) activities at the generic and unit levels through use of data sources and compliance peer review monitoring.
19. Demonstrates…