Registered Nurse - Wound Care - Per Diem

About This Role

This per diem Registered Nurse position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, providing effective direct care as part of an interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. The role involves functioning as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes, and directing and overseeing care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination. This position effectively coordinates patient care and unit activities among nursing peers, physicians, and support services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing practices according to up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care
• Provide and ensure safe and excellent delivery of individualized patient care
• Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation
• Perform age and disease-specific assessment/data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status
• Recognize clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status
• Identify variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences
• Develop a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes
• Formulate age and disease-specific patient/family-centered goals/outcomes based on assessment data
• Develop and coordinate a plan of care which is patient/family-focused, prioritized, and encompasses the continuum of care
• Communicate, coordinate, and implement the plan of care
• Provide ongoing communication with patient/family, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status, rendered care, and treatment plans
• Implement age and disease-specific care in an organized and timely manner
• Provide or coordinate patient/family education as needed and ensure understanding
• Perform according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events
• Provide nursing care and treatments that reflect the patients' needs, advocate appropriately, and demonstrate evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards
• Perform continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluation of rendered care
• Administer medication utilizing bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to patients
• Discharge patients in a multi-disciplinary manner to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care
• Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes
• Utilize critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes