MedSurg RN Nights

Overview

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At Scion Health
, we empower our caregivers to do what they do best. We value every voice by caring deeply for every patient and each other. We show courage by running toward the challenge and we lean into new ideas by embracing curiosity and question asking. Together, we create our culture by living our values in our day-to-day interactions with our patients and teammates.

• Direct and coordinate all nursing care based on established clinical nursing practice standards.
• Collaborate with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
• Ability to practice nursing as described by the definition: “The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health alterations.” Utilize the nursing process in providing care including administering treatments and medications, interpreting diagnostic tests, formulating a plan of care, collaborating with other health care providers, and educating patients and/or significant others. Pass competencies for this position. Exercise discretion and independent action within prescribed limits.
• Collect patient health data and determine data collection priorities based on the patient’s condition.
• Collect pertinent data using appropriate assessment techniques and involve patients, significant others, and health care providers as appropriate.
• Ensure data collection is systematic and ongoing; document relevant data in the medical record according to hospital standards; analyze assessment data to inform diagnoses and patient problems.
• Derive diagnoses/patient problems from assessment data and validate with the patient, significant others, and health care providers when possible.
• Document diagnoses/patient problems in a manner that facilitates determining expected outcomes and plan; identify patient-specific expected outcomes.
• Derive measurable outcomes and formulate/outcome plans with the patient and health care providers; ensure outcomes are realistic and attainable given resources and patient capabilities; include a time estimate for attainment.
• Develop and individualize a plan of care; collaborate with the patient, significant others, and health care providers; ensure the plan reflects current nursing practice and provides continuity of care.
• Establish and implement interventions consistent with the plan of care; document interventions and evaluate patient progress toward outcomes; ensure ongoing evaluation and revision of diagnoses, outcomes, and the plan of care as needed.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the evaluation process when appropriate; participate in quality-of-care activities to monitor and improve nursing care and patient outcomes.
• Identify aspects of care important for quality monitoring; collect and analyze quality data; formulate recommendations to improve nursing care or patient outcomes; implement changes to improve nursing practice.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing

• Licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse (RN)

• Minimum of one year of hospital clinical experience preferred