Registered Nurse; RN - PRN

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) - PRN

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Schedule

PRN— as needed coverage when clinic is open (M‑F). No set hours or consistent days.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Complete initial assessments and documents as required.

Collect, record, and analyze, within prescribed timeframe, pertinent data for admission

• Assessment According To Hospital Policy, Including

Assessment According To Hospital Policy, Including

• Patient strengths and limitations that can be addressed in reaching health goals.
• Cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors that may impact on patient’s course of treatment.
• Patient needs that are to be addressed at discharge.
• Medical/physical status.
• History of medication compliance, reactions, and current schedule; and
• Age‑specific data regarding the patient’s individual needs.

Involve patient’s support systems (family, friends) in assessment and documentation

• Observe and document the patient’s interaction with family and friends as it is pertinent to the patient’s treatment.
• Obtain assessment data from support systems, when appropriate, regarding the patient’s history and individual needs.

Act as an advocate for patients

• Explain patient’s rights so they can understand and obtain appropriate signatures.
• Provide the patient with information and obtain their signature on necessary consents.
• Act as a patient advocate, use knowledge of patient rights and responsibilities, and protect patient’s privacy and confidentiality.
• Assist in patient orientation process.
• Know and employ Hospital policies and procedures regarding unit safety, the necessity of gown/contraband search on admission, and carry out the process in a respectful manner.
• Remain sensitive to individual patient/family stressors upon admission while providing pertinent unit information.

Initiate And Update Treatment Plan And Documentation As Required

• Participate in planning and modifying the patient’s plan of care.
• Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing patient’s treatment plan and multi‑disciplinary assessment for assigned patients.
• Participate in care conferences (staffings) and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan to others at the staffing.
• Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating it as indicated.
• Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem.
• Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated.

On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document information collected in nursing

• Review current lab data and follow‑up with doctor.
• Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions, as indicated.
• Identify potential for self‑abuse, suicidality and/or assaultive behavior.
• Develop age‑appropriate interventions for the patient’s plan of care.
• Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly.

Implement patient care

• Demonstrate safe and correct medication administration by:
• Accuracy in medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
• Maintaining current knowledge of the medication’s purpose and effects for each patient, as demonstrated by correct documentation of medication, as well as observations about responses to medication.
• Accurately transcribing and implementing physician medication orders.
• Maintaining a continual awareness of monitoring the expected and unexpected medication efforts including adverse drug reactions, drug/drug or drug/food interactions, or other unexpected consequences of the medication.
• Regularly conducting and documenting patient education about medications.
• Maintaining current knowledge about new pharmacologic products, including new medications or medications with new uses/therapeutic action.

Identify potential patient care problems, abrupt changes, or impending instability in the patient’s condition, and exercise leadership to intervene appropriately and prevent adverse patient outcomes

• Use appropriate de‑escalation techniques: quiet room; locked seclusion; restraints.
• Re‑evaluate safety level.
• Identify alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
• Identify extra pyramidal side‑effects/neuroleptic malignant syndrome signs.
• Identify…