Job Description

Providence Health is looking for a Med Surg RN to join our team in the Northeast Campus. Nurses in the Med Surg Unit should have a minimum of one year of experience, with orthopedic experienced desired. This is a PRN position.

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Essential Functions

• Assesses patient's status within identified functional health patterns, ie management of health, growth and development, oxygenation, activity, etc
• Assesses family status as it impacts the patient
• Identifies, based on assessment data, appropriate nursing diagnosis or collaborative problems which can be addressed through nursing interventions. Makes nursing judgments based on findings
• Identifies learning needs through assessment of patient knowledge. Plans and coordinates teaching methods and content to achieve desired outcomes.
• Plans care collaboratively with family/patient, physicians and other health care team members. Prioritizes and delegates to health care team appropriately
• Initiates an individualized nursing care plan and evaluates variances to expected course
• Interprets clinical findings and correlates with patient's condition. Identifies patient/family responses to treatment and continually evaluates effectiveness of care.
• Revises the care plan based on evaluation of effectiveness in achieving outcomes.
• Coordinates and assures completion of care as ordered by physicians and as planned in the nursing care plan.
• Assumes responsibility/accountability for the plan of care
• Consults with physicians regularly regarding patient progress. Collaborates with the medical staff regarding appropriateness of daily and routine orders based on change in the patient's status.
• Facilitates the smooth transition of care when a patient is transferred to another unit/facility
• Is knowledgeable of patient's status during entire length of stay on the patient care unit/or service line.
• Demonstrates responsibility for achievement of identified patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates competence to provide developmentally appropriate care/treatment for the patient populations admitted to the patient care unit/service line.
• Demonstrates clinical skills necessary to support and assist attending and consulting physicians
• Demonstrates knowledge of events, activities and changes in policies and procedures affecting practice
• Ensures that care is delivered to assigned patients in accordance with medical orders and nursing standards and is documented in clinical records and on plans of care.