Forensics Nurse Examiner Emergency Department PRN

Job Description

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.

• Benefits Eligible: No
• Shift Details: PRN
• Department: Emergency Department
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Platte Valley
• Additional Details: Previous forensics nurse experience required, completion of the forensic nursing course required prior to starting

• Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (teaching, referrals, and follow-up).
• Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate. Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.
• Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others. Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

• Patient Care Delivery
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Documentations
• Professional Etiquette
• Accountability
• Patient Care Coordination
• Communication
• Patient Evaluation
• Critical Thinking

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent verbal interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors; ability to hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity to manipulate complex and delicate equipment; frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care and accessing needed information.
• Ability to lift and transfer patients; ability to bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment (up to heavy items).
• Ability to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment; push/pull gurneys and portable equipment; navigate crowded rooms.
• May be required to stand for extended periods.
• For roles requiring driving: ability to drive a vehicle and read signage and traffic signals.

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.

Note:

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements in place at the time of hire.

Location: Platte Valley Hospital

Work City: Brighton

Work State: Colorado

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. (Salary information not provided in listing.)

EEO:
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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