Description
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care of patients.
The Clinic RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members in an outpatient clinic setting.
Responsibilities:
- Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status.
- Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
- Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
- Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.
- Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others.
Requirements:
- Current RN License in state of practice.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
- Practice-specific certification as required by the clinical setting.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.
- RN experience preferred.
Work Environment:
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment, and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
- Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment.
Benefits:
- Benefits eligible.
- Flexible scheduling - open to three 12s, four 10s, four 9s, or five 8s.
- Generous benefits package.