Outpatient Registered Nurse - Float

Job Title

Basic Functions Of Position:

• Prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care for patients utilizing the nursing process.
• Provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary departments and other patient care team members in maintaining standards for clinical practice and standards of patient care in the clinical setting.
• Participates in quality improvement.
• Participates in patient/family teaching and discharge planning.
• Directs, supervises and evaluates nursing care provided. Leads and facilitates decision making at the unit level.
• Assigns nursing care to team members in accordance with patient's needs and nursing staff competencies and qualifications.
• Competently performs core and specific skills.
• Provides one unit based education to staff annually.
• Competently administers medications with knowledge of action, mode of administration, side effects, and contraindications.
• Implements, transcribes, and/or countersigns physician orders.
• Utilizes assessment skills to identify biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, selfcare, discharge planning, spiritual and educational needs of patient, family, and/or significant other.
• Communicates pertinent unit activities, work load fluctuations/staffing, and difficult situations.
• Makes patient rounds with physicians and assists with diagnostic tests and procedures.
• Identifies learning opportunities for self and others.
• Promotes good public relations for the nursing department/hospital.
• Competently assumes an active role in the safe, effective administration of oncology chemotherapy, understands mechanism of action, modes of administration, dosage calculation and contraindication.

Qualifications:

Education:

Graduate from an approved school of nursing; BSN preferred. BLS training.

License:
Possess current licensure by Missouri State Board of Nursing.

Experience:

Previous nursing experience preferred.

Special:

Patient Contact:
Must have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.

Physical:
Must be able to lift approximately 50lbs.

Standing:
Majority of shift spent standing.

Walking:
Considerable amount of time spent walking.

Lifting:
Must use good body mechanics to independently lift or in certain situations, assist with lifting/transferring a patient.

Visual:
Must have ability to read physician orders and observe patient care areas; utilize inspection skills during patient assessment.

Hearing:
Must be able to receive/comprehend telephone calls; auscultate and percuss during physical assessment.

Speaking:
Talking is essential in instructing and supervising nursing personnel, communicating physician orders and addressing patient/family needs and/or requests.