Description
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients.
The staff RN utilises the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.
Essential Functions
- Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status, including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate.
- Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualised 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of practice.
- RNs must have their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or be willing to obtain within four years of their hire date.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
Preferred Qualifications
- One or more years of RN work experience in the NICU.
Physical Requirements
- 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, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
Benefits
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.