RN Emergency (Day & Night)

RN in Emergency Room to identify medical issues, determine severity, and provide immediate support to minimize negative long-term effects and sustain life.

Requirements

• Uses the nursing process, critical thinking skills, professional judgment, and the attributes of Careful Nursing to provide care for an assigned population of patients.
• Assesses patient needs to determine care requirements.
• Plans care and delegates tasks to ancillary personnel based on patient assessment.
• Evaluates patient response to care provided and make changes in the plan for care as needed.
• Promotes patient/family independence through the provision of education related to patient's condition, treatment, medications, and ongoing self-care requirements
• Demonstrates critical thinking and problem-solving skills independently.
• Synthesizes information and resources to care for complex, higher acuity patients.
• Completes designated unit-specific competencies.
• Completes at least 16 hours of continuing education, in addition to mandatory in-service requirements, within the last year that is specific to daily clinical practice.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and facilitates discharge planning and patient education.
• Coordinates discharge planning by identifying discharge needs, implementing/revising, and communicating the plan in collaboration with the patient/family/significant others.
• Discusses patient progress, problems, and needs with physician and multidisciplinary team members regularly to ensure that goals for discharge are met.
• Assures high levels of quality of care through compliance with regulatory standards, reference to current research related to patient care outcomes, and participation in the data collection and analysis process of ongoing quality monitoring.
• Uses supplies cost-effectively and efficiently, and works with the management team to make unit supply level adjustments, additions, and revisions.