About This Role
Caring for patients in a school setting is the core of this Registered Nurse position, which involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care. The role utilizes technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination with other health team members.
Responsibilities
- Perform appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate)
- Seek and evaluate information acquired from other members of the interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others
- Use assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care
- Actively seek patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education
- Collaboratively plan and prepare patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up)
- Direct the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate
- Provide or delegate care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions
- Demonstrate the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources
- Evaluate patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction
- Revise plan of care as indicated and reassess changes as appropriate
- Promote the nursing profession and participate in the development of others
- Integrate legal and ethical standards into practice, comply with regulatory standards, practice within scope of licensure, provide accurate & timely documentation, and understand legal implications of care delivery
Requirements
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment
- RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
