Registered Nurse - Inpatient

Registered Nurse
- Inpatient# Registered Nurse
- Inpatient Wadena, MN 56482## Overview Salary Range $42.38 - $63.56 Hourly Position Type Part Time Job Shift
12 Hour Night Category Nursing ## Description If you're an RN looking for a positive workplace culture focused on safety, quality and excellence, consider becoming part of the Astera team!  Astera Health currently has a Registered Nurse (RN) opening at the Wadena campus. This position is part-time: 48 hours per biweekly pay period, 12-hour night shifts, with every third holiday and weekend rotation schedule.

Some responsibilities of the Inpatient RN include, but are not limited to the following:
* Uses and documents the nursing process to provide individualized patient-focused care from admission to discharge
* Coordinates the nursing plan of care with the medical plan of care in the development and implementation of the Patient Care Plan
* Assists the physician with rounds, physical examinations and procedures
* Maintains updated age-specific competencies for infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients
* Performs patient care activities to provide for the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient/family
* Safely administers treatments and medications
** Essential Duties:
** 1. Supports the mission of Astera Health through personal conduct and behaviors that contribute ideas and suggestions, is helpful and friendly, demonstrates regular attendance and punctuality, and adheres to organizational policies and rules.
2. Be a role model of Astera Health culture and core values.
3. Uses and documents the nursing process to provide individualized patient-focused care from admission to discharge.
4. Delegates appropriate responsibilities to other nursing personnel based on their skill, experience, and competency level consistent with patient care needs. Provides direction and oversight of the patient care that is delegated.
5. Coordinates the nursing plan of care with the medical plan of care in the development and implementation of the Patient Care Plan.  On admission, establishes and updates Plan of Care daily, uses age-appropriate data to develop care plans.
6. Assists the providers with rounds, physical examinations, and procedures.  Initiates and implements provider orders.
7. Maintains updated age-specific competencies for infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
8. Performs nursing interventions to provide for the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient/family.
9. Safely administers treatments, performs nursing procedures, maintains, and safely uses therapeutic equipment to carry out provider orders which relate to the practice of nursing.
10. Observes, assesses, reports and documents subjective/objective data to maintain an accurate and timely medical record, i.e., patient's condition, reaction to drugs, treatments, significant incidents, medications administered, response to pain management, intake and output, vital signs.
11. Safely administers medications including but not limited to oral, injectable, topical, inhalation, intravenous, and blood components.  Follows proper procedure to ensure safe medication administration and considers age and size and individual needs of patients, including need for pain management.  IV administration includes:
* Venipuncture and initiation of IV therapy.
* Initiating and monitoring IV rates and IV infusion pumps.
* Daily maintenance care of IV site, including tubing changes.
* Verifying, initiating, monitoring, and discontinuing IV's. including blood and/or blood components.
12. Reports all unusual conditions or reactions to RN Supervisor, or to provider as appropriate to assist with safe provision of care.
13. Establishes and…