Registered Nurse (RN)
RemX | The Workforce Experts
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: New Bedford, MA
Contract type: Full time
Description
The overnight Registered Nurse (RN) will work 7:15PM – 7:15AM (12 Hours Shift), demonstrating proficiency in the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
Nursing Process
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The overnight Registered Nurse (RN) will work 7:15PM – 7:15AM (12 Hours Shift), demonstrating proficiency in the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
Nursing Process
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patients’ progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
- Current RN Licensure in the state of Massachusetts
- Associate Degree in Nursing (Bachelor is preferred)
- 2-3 years of relevant experience required within the last three (3) years
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Plus: experience with Labor & Delivery unit
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