Patient Care Unit RN - PRN-Days

Job Summary
Under the direction of the Clinical Coordinator and/or Night Resource Supervisor, this position assesses plans, organizes and evaluates all aspects of patient care for assigned unit/patients.
Reports to: Clinical Coordinator and/or Night Resource Supervisor
Essential Job Functions
1. Utilizes the nursing process to provide quality patient care according to established standards of care which includes planning, implementing, evaluating and adjusting plan of care, and discharge planning based on expected patient outcomes.
1.1 Admits, transfers, and discharges patients.
1.2 Completes ongoing patient assessment and documents according to policy.
1.3 Completes nursing assessment within 2 hours of admission, or designates reason for incompleteness. Reviews database and nutrition screen.
1.4 Participates in the development of patient plan of care to include patient problems, goals, evaluations and interventions.
1.5 Reports symptoms and significant changes in patient's condition to appropriate personnel.
1.6 Assesses, collaborates and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge with other members of the care team.
2. Demonstrates appropriate application of age specific standards, policies and procedures and guidelines in caring for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
2.1 Follows age specific standards in administering medications based on patient's age.
2.2 Follows age specific standards of care during altered states of consciousness related to analgesia, conscious sedation or anesthesia.
2.3 Uses age specific standards, policies and procedures and guidelines to perform treatments and procedures that are routine for unit/clinic based on patient's age.
3. Incorporates cultural and developmental needs into plan of care.
3.1 In collaboration with the patient/family, and in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner, implements the plan of care.

Minimum Requirements:
Experience, Training, Knowledge: One (1) to three (3) years' experience as an RN preferred. Experience in orthopedic, neurosurgical, pain management specialties preferred.
Physical Requirements: Position requires lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling up to fifty (50) pounds while administering patient care; stooping, kneeling and/or crouching; standing and walking five (5) or more hours per day; reaching, grasping, and handling and/or feeling five (5) or more hours per day. Visual acuity to correctly distinguish skin tone variations, evidence of IV infiltration, infection and to read telemetry, blood pressure gauges, etc; audio acuity to correctly distinguish various body sounds, i.e. respirators, heart sounds, bowel sounds and to discern sounds made by various types of machinery or equipment which would indicate dangerous or improper operation.
Working Conditions/Environmental Exposures
Environmental hazards such as chemicals, solvents, needles, needle containers, sharps, blood, body fluids, various infectious/communicable diseases, infectious medical waste, radiation, and/or radioactive materials and/or radioactive waste, proximity to moving mechanical parts. Protective clothing/equipment may be necessary.

THE JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT INTENDED TO BE AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, NOR DOES IT DISSOLVE THE "AT WILL" EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP.