Job Title: RN ER-TRV-IV
Location (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): Wildomar, CA (ONSITE)
Contract Duration: 2 months
Work Hours: Night shift 1900 to 0730
Duties:
- 30 Bed unit. 100-110 avg. patients daily - 120's during winter season.
- CA License, BLS, ACLS, PALS required.
- Perform patient assessment according to hospital/unit policy.
- Performs initial assessment appropriate to the patient's clinical presentation/diagnosis, care setting, age, development level, and cultural and religious orientation in a timely manner.
- Performs completely and accurately including, but not limited to, physical (i.e.
- assessment for pain, skin breakdown, risk for falls), psychological (i.e.
- cognitive and communicative skills or development), social status and other patient needs.
- Identifies and prioritizes the need for further assessment based on the patient's clinical presentation/diagnosis, care setting, desire for care and responses to any previous care.
- Initiates discharge planning for each patient upon admission as appropriate.
- Develops a Patient Plan of Care that: Is individualized for each patient based on assessment of needs that include input from the patient, family and other multi-disciplinary health care team members.
- Includes plan for discharge/transfer.
- Identifies specific nursing diagnosis is relevant to assessment findings.
- Identifies interventions, for each nursing diagnosis, specific to identified patient needs.
- Performs interventions identified for each nursing diagnosis on the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care.
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate patient care needs to all members of the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Conducts patient/family education that: Is appropriate to the patient's age, learning needs, level of understanding and readiness to learn.
- Includes the family/significant others when appropriate.
- Documents nursing intervention and patient teaching on designated forms.
- Evaluates and documents the patient's response to the Plan of Care and to interventions.
- Revises and updates the Plan of Care as evidenced by documentation.
- Documents patient's response to teaching on designated form.
- Facilitates systems/processes in response to situations that have the potential to negatively impact patient/family outcomes.
- Follows the five rights of medication administration and maintains transcription accuracy.
- Administers blood products per hospital policy.
- Administers IV therapy per hospital policy.
- Able to function effectively during an emergency patient care situation.
- Demonstrates appropriate interventions regarding the use of restraints per hospital policy.
- Performs waived testing following hospital policy.
- Assumes responsibility for maintaining a high level of clinical expertise and adapts to new information, technology, and changing trends in nursing practice.
- Maintains required certifications.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills in the English language.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area (BSP), circumference and volume.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to work in high volume, fluctuating census environment.
- Subject to many interruptions.
Skills:
- ACLS - Required,
- BLS - Required,
- ER Experience - Required: 2 Years,
- PALS - Required,
- Primary Source Verification - Required,
- RN License - Required,
- Travel Experience - Required: 1 Years
Education: Nursing
Schedule Notes: Night shift 1900 to 0730
Required Skills: ACLS,DISCHARGE PLANNING,DOCUMENTATION,PATIENT CARE,RN,
Additional Skills: RN LICENSE,TEACHING,THERAPY,TRANSCRIPTION,EXCELLENT WRITTEN AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS,
Minimum Degree Required: Associate's Degree (Community College, MBO)
Hours Per Day: 12.00
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Languages: English( Speak, Read, Write )
Department: 022*98310 : EMERGENCY ROOM I Southwest Health
Job Category: SWHS-Clinical Nursing Travel