Registered Nurse

About This Role

This nursing role focuses on delivering comprehensive patient care, assisting physicians, and ensuring patient safety and education within a leading academic medical center. It suits a Registered Nurse who is dedicated to providing high-level care and collaborating with a team of clinical, technical, and business professionals.

Responsibilities

• Assist with all aspects of delivery of care for patients including assisting physicians, patient assessments and monitoring, patient education, triage nursing, and operation of equipment
• Assess, plan, implement, document, coordinate, and manage patient care according to department and hospital standards and giving consideration to age-specific accommodations
• Maintain a computerized, evolving plan of care based on nursing assessment, the medical plan of care, and patient need, initiated according to department standards
• Provide patient care demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of normal physiology and disease pathophysiology, appropriate nursing and medical interventions, and principles of growth and development over the lifespan
• Implement patient post-care based on evidence-based practice
• Document patient response to treatment and effectiveness of care
• Ensure appropriate completion of chart and other documentation, including transcription and implementation of physician orders and computer entry
• Ensure that no unapproved abbreviations are used when documenting on a patient’s medical record
• Intervene as appropriate to prevent complications in collaboration with physicians
• Implement nursing/physician orders that result in achievement of patient, nursing, and physician goals
• Evaluate, revise, and improve patient care using creative strategies, current research findings, and consideration of age-specific accommodations
• Demonstrate initiative and self-direction in completion of assigned responsibilities in accordance with department needs
• Perform selected therapeutic interventions and diagnostic procedures according to department standards as ordered, including medication administration, point of care testing, initiation and maintenance of oxygen therapy, and insertion and maintenance of Intravenous (IV) access
• Complete infusion therapy shift refrigerator checks at the beginning of the shift, utilizing two patient identifiers before performing interventions and/or procedures
• Assist patients physically by providing physical support through pushing, pulling, lifting, reaching, turning, kneeling, standing, sitting, and balancing, and psychologically by providing emotional intervention
• Demonstrate ability to perform with clinical proficiency in crises and medical emergencies
• Communicate and collaborate with patients, physicians, family members, and other health care disciplines to achieve excellence in patient care