Staff Nurse Level 2 - PACU

Description

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• The Registered Nurse (RN) operates as a key member of the health care team using the nursing process, clinical skills and leadership to direct, provide and evaluate age/population specific patient care according to the department’s scope of service. Analyze patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records.

• Monitor, record, and report symptoms and changes in patients’ condition.
• Collect patient data.
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to assist in determining the plan of care.
• Identify expected outcomes.
• Implement and modify interventions identified in the patient plan of care.
• Evaluate the patient’s progress toward outcomes and modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patient response and condition.
• Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
• Accurately prepare and administer medications according to policies and procedures.
• Document nursing process in nursing assessment, nursing care plan (NCP), and nurses notes as outlined in policy and procedure. Diagnosis is valid for patient, interventions are appropriate and outcomes evaluated. Changes in the plan of care are made as the patient progresses.
• Systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Identify practices to improve job or department performance.
• Monitor job and department activities.
• Participate in department CQI by:
  • Using the results to initiate changes in practice.
  • Using the results to initiate system changes.
  • Acquiring and maintaining current knowledge in nursing practice.
  • Participating in ongoing educational activities.
  • Seeking experiences to maintain skills.
  • Seeking knowledge; displaying skills appropriate to setting.
  • Consistently seeking educational tools to broaden knowledge base of various age groups, diseases, and best practices.
  • Completing mandatory training each year, plus additional 16 minimal hours for staff development.
  • Remaining up-to-date with new equipment, policies, and procedures.
• Contribute to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others by:
  • Sharing knowledge with colleagues and others.
  • Providing constructive feedback.
  • Directing and supervising less skilled nursing or health care personnel; may act as a charge nurse on a particular unit, and may work as a preceptor after attending preceptor workshop.
  • Adhering to unit specific standards of patient interaction and customer service.
  • Participating in staff development model, serving as a preceptor for new staff and students.
  • Holding staff members accountable for results.
  • Ensuring adequate adherence to policies and procedures.
  • Informing and training new team members of procedures and policies.
• Makes decisions and takes actions on behalf of patients in an ethical manner.
• Maintains confidentiality, acts as a patient advocate, delivers care in a non‑judgmental and non‑discriminatory manner sensitive to patient diversity.
• Collaborates with patient, significant others and health care providers in providing care by:
  • Consulting and coordinating with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
  • Making referrals for continuity of care.
  • Educating patients, families and other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, and health improvement programs.
  • Involving multidisciplinary teams as needed and documenting in nurse documentation.
  • Informing patient and family members of actions being taken, status of activities, estimated time involved, and reason for changes or delays.
• Uses research findings in practice by:
  • Using interventions substantiated by research.
  • Participating in research as appropriate to the nurse’s position.
  • Participating in improvement/redesign processes.
  • Implementing findings from departmental and performance improvement activities into daily tasks.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and cost in planning and delivering patient care by:
  • Evaluating factors related to safety, effectiveness and cost when two…