Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg

Job Shift: Days, 7:00am to 7:30pm, every other weekend is required.

Hours: 12

Job Type: Full Time

Up to $15,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience

Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment.

• Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
• Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
• All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
• Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience.
• Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
• Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs.  All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.                        
• Administers medications safely.  No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
• Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.  
• Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned.  Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal.
• Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports).  Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.       
• Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading.
• Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.                            
• Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students.
• Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians.                              
• Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements.
• Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.                    
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip.  Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.

Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:

• Current CA RN license
• Current CPR Certification
• ACLS within 90 days of hire
• Dysrhythmia interpretation course or demonstrated competency in interpretation of dysrhythmias by the end of orientation.
• 1 year Acute Care experience preferred

Physical demands:

• Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to 50 lbs.)
• Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients

Working Conditions:

• Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
• May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and wastes
• Occasional exposure to unpleasant patient or unit elements
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
• Requires judgment/action which could result in death of patient