Registered Nurse - Emergency Room Full Time Nights

About This Role

This night-shift position in the Emergency Room is for a Registered Nurse with prior experience in critical care or stepdown. The role offers a fast-paced environment where you can make an immediate impact on patient care and work with a wide variety of patients and conditions.

Responsibilities

• Assess and record patient status and identify patient care needs upon admission/point of care entry
• Organize assessment health data so that it is accurate, complete, and accessible
• Identify problems that need immediate attention
• Validate diagnoses with patient/family and other health care team members
• Document diagnoses in a manner that facilitates the determination of expected outcomes and plan of care
• Initiate Problem List at the time of admission and update as needed
• Incorporate principles of age-specific care into the patient
• Document that the patient
• Begin plans for discharge at time of admission; consult with patient/family and health care team members regarding discharge plan
• Identify patient teaching needs on admission and throughout hospital stay
• Arrange conferences with patient and/or family and other members of health team when indicated to plan care
• Prioritize and organize nursing interventions that are evidence-based and reflective of established standards of care
• Provide individualized, mutually agreeable, patient and family education that is founded on evidence-based practice and research guidelines
• Document all assessments, interventions, and patient responses
• Review consistently the patient
• Assure that revisions to the plan of care are systematic and ongoing and are driven by measurable realistic goals
• Document the patient
• Identify unmet outcomes and provide direction for continuity of care
• Reassess nursing actions for effectiveness in achieving desired outcomes
• Communicate with patient/family and health care team members regarding patient care and nursing
• Collaborate with patient/family and healthcare team members regarding the patient
• Present relevant patient information at multidisciplinary meetings/conferences for feedback from peers
• Make appropriate referrals as needed for continuity of care

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current State of Illinois Registered Professional Nurse
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate with others
• Strong analytic abilities
• Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) acceptable with commitment to obtain a BSN from an accredited program within three years of first day of employment in clinical nurse role