Casual RN - Urgent Care

Nemours is seeking a casual /PRN nurse for Urgent Care, Glen Mills, PA.

Schedule:

Minimum of one 8‑hour shift every 6 weeks, weekend rotation and commitment of one winter and one summer holiday.

The Urgent Care Registered Nurse is a member of the leadership team, overseeing and supporting the Urgent Care clinical team and is accountable for daily shift operations. Practice of professional nursing means the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgement, and nursing skill based upon applied principles of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences which shall include, but not be limited to:

• the observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured, or infirm; and the promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness of others.
• the administration of medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized by the laws of this state to prescribe such medications and treatments.
• the supervision and teaching of other personnel in the theory and performance of any of the acts.

The Registered Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family. Provide cross coverage to other Urgent Care locations in the Delaware Valley when necessary.

• Utilize and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Recognize and respond to the dynamic situation while sorting out extraneous detail and exercising clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the patient population of the assigned clinical area.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data with clinical events to make clinical decisions to meet individual patient and family needs.
• Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, proactively seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians, as appropriate, while using evidence‑based guidelines.

• Utilizes and contributes to evidence‑based practice.

• Determines and prioritizes the patient's nursing care needs and maintains responsibility for directing aspects of care which are delegated to patient care team members.
• Initiates, implements, and evaluates standards of care based on identified patient needs.
• Consistently shows empathy, sensitivity and insight and is able to intervene in stressful situations.
• Performs triage and discharge.
• Obtains and performs lab tests on patient specimens.
• Conducts intravenous, intramuscular, venipunctures and catheterizations as per protocol and provider order.
• Administers medications.
• Performs and assists with splinting and procedures.
• Follows orders per provider and company protocol, in a timely fashion with professionalism, courtesy, competence and accuracy.
• Prioritizes patients based on acuity.
• Discharges patient/family providing written and verbal instructions and ensuring understanding by parent/guardian/patient.
• Involves self or provider for problems arising on shift with patients or parents.

• Fosters a non-discriminatory climate, recognizing, supporting and including cultural diversity in organizational and nursing policy development.
• Recognizes unique differences of patients and families. Incorporates these into patient plan of care.
• Provides for alternative means of communication as required to meet patient and family needs.
• Tailors nursing care to meet the age specific and developmentally appropriate needs of patient and family.
• Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and families.

• Advocates on behalf of patients/families and personnel, promoting adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Acts as resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical issues. Initiates ethics consult when appropriate.
• Effectively communicates and negotiates needed changes in a patient’s plan of care. Seeks opportunities to learn and be mentored.

• Effectively communicates and collaborates with nursing leaders and…