Registered Nurse; RN), Telemetry Inpatient Un

Registered Nurse (Telemetry Inpatient Unit)

Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Position Type:
Full time (30-40+ hours/week), hourly.

FLSA Status:
Non-exempt

Education Level: ASN/BSN is required, RN license

Job Category:
Health Care

Our Company Promise:

We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter's mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture's key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:

• Dependability
• Integrity
• Personability
• Transparency
• Responsiveness

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter client and customer.

Summary:

Vighter is recruiting Registered Nurses (RN) to provide patient care support in the Telemetry Inpatient Unit at the George

E. Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, located at 500 Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City, UT. The Salt Lake City VA is rated as a complex medical facility, therefore provides care to Veterans locally and from surrounding states.

The RN is responsible for direct and/or supervised nursing care of hospitalized Veterans on an acute medical-surgical/telemetry unit.

Vighter is a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business that is accredited by both the Joint Commission and ISO-9001. With our dedication to continuous improvement, Vighter assists in the provision of the highest standards of care.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Provide nursing services within the VA medical center and within the scope of practice for a variety of patient-centered specialties and ensure that all Joint Commission standards for care are met during performance of patient care.
• Perform comprehensive nursing assessments and identify changes in patient condition.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care using the nursing process.
• Provide safe, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Administer medications, IV therapies, treatments, and nursing procedures according to VA policies.
• Provide continuous cardiac telemetry monitoring, recognize abnormal rhythms, and respond appropriately to rhythm changes.
• Maintain competency in telemetry monitoring and related equipment.
• Recognize deterioration in a patient's condition and initiate appropriate interventions/escalation.
• Coordinate care with physicians, hospitalists, LVNs/LPNs, nursing assistants, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Delegate appropriately and supervise care provided by other nursing personnel.
• Educate Veterans and families regarding diagnoses, medications, treatments, self-management, and discharge planning.
• Document assessments, interventions, patient responses, and telemetry findings accurately in the electronic health record.
• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and patient-safety initiatives.
• Maintain required competencies, mandatory education, and certifications.
• Promote Veteran-centered care, patient advocacy, safety, infection prevention, and customer satisfaction.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, orientation, and knowledge-sharing to other staff as appropriate.
• A deep sense of purpose and dedication to the United States and our U.S. Military Veterans, their Families, and other patients as assigned.
• An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
• An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction
• Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Knowledge and

Skills:

• Must have exceptional customer service skills.
• Employees shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the job requirements, including ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment with limited supervision
• Excellent organizational, scheduling and prioritization skills.

Education:

• Holds an Associate of Science degree from an NLN accredited college or university and holds a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in any state.
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited university is preferred.

Qualifications:

• Experience:
  
  Minimum of two (2) years of experience within the last three (3) years.
• Must have and maintain certification in Basic Life Support or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through the American Heart Association.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with diverse teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Duty Hours / On-call Requirements:

• The expected duty hours for this position are 8 hours per…