Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - Falls, Ny

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.

Posting Specifics

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Shift Details: Nights, including weekends and holidays. Shift differentials given for evenings, nights and weekends.
• Unit/Department: Emergency Department
• Additional Details: One year of licensed RN experience is required.

Essential Functions

• Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking 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.
• 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 licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery.
• Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others. Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, documents accurately and timely, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Skills

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

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 BSN within four years of their hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.

* 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.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent verbal communication with patients, families, and care teams; ability to understand alarms and issues quickly and accurately, especially in emergencies.
• Manual dexterity for equipment operation and documentation.
• Ability to lift and transfer patients; push/pull gurneys and equipment; navigate busy rooms.
• Ability to stand for extended periods and to drive if required.

Location: Saint Joseph Hospital

Work City: Denver

Work State: Colorado

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

36

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$37.45 - $57.29

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), and more.