About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. Caring for patients after surgery is the heart of the job on a busy surgical ward.
Responsibilities
- Deliver nursing care to patients under general supervision, following established policies, procedures, and professional guidelines
- Plan and implement nursing care
- Document nursing assessments
- Identify and report situations requiring further intervention
- Formulate and communicate goal-directed plan of care
- Assure patient rights
- Perform job duties in accordance with the mission, vision and values of Tampa General Hospital and principles of quality improvement
- Assess and analyze the health status of patients in assigned nursing unit in a comprehensive manner
- Perform and/or assure completed assessments on all patients admitted within the designated time delineated in policy/unit standards
- Perform on-going assessments and document according to policy and procedure
- Report significant findings of admission and on-going assessments to appropriate member of heath care team
- Initiate discharge planning process with initial admission assessment
- Plan patient care on assigned unit in collaboration with the patient, family, and health care team
- Formulate individualized patient plan of care based on assessment data within the designated time delineated in policy/unit standards
- Update plan of care based on the patient assessment within appropriate time period
- Direct, implement and coordinate patient care activities on assigned unit to ensure the delivery of quality care
- Communicate the plan of care to other members of the healthcare team through daily worksheet conferences, verbally during the shift and shift report
- Direct care team members in accordance with their scope of practice
- Communicate and document all patient care given including assessments, plan of care, interventions, patient response, and follow-up
- Transcribe and direct the implementation of physician orders
- Provide patient education based on assessed needs and evaluate understanding
- Conduct ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes and document effectiveness of planned and implemented interventions and strategies in relation to the plan of care within time frames per policy/unit standards
- Include patient and family in the evaluation process
- Provide appropriate patient assessment and care specific to the needs of the patient populations served (e.g. age groups, patients of size; diagnosis-based)
- Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of the specific physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of patients as appropriate to the populations served
