$75.00 an hour Temp RN Role (12 weeks)
Reports to the Director. Provides professional nursing services. Assesses the needs of patients and initiates, implements and evaluates individualized plans of care. Collaborates with other professional, clinical and ancillary staff in providing quality care to patients. The Temporary Nurse is hired for a work assignment of up to 13 weeks.
MISSION, VALUES and SERVICE GOALS
- MISSION: We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.
- VALUES: Trust. Respect. Integrity. Compassion.
- SERVICE GOALS: Personally connect. Keep everyone informed. Be on their team.
Provides professional nursing services by:
- Performing the priority (high risk, high frequency) technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
- Establishing and/or revising priorities for job/patient care activities based on the acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, consideration for other department or team member's priorities, timelines and plans.
- Responding to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individual's physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
- Advocating for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes.
- Maintaining accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions. Bases actions and decisions on scientific principles/logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice/protocols, and organizational values.
- Seeking supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently
- Using internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
Provides information to and directs others to provide quality patient care by:
- Developing or revising a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data. Includes measurable goals/outcomes; reflects values, preferences and limitations of patient and/or family; identifies interventions to achieve outcomes/goals; addresses pertinent physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning problems/needs.
- Initiating or maintaining interventions to assure continuity of safe-effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.
- Modifying, continuing or discontinuing interventions, goals, or time frames, according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.
- Documenting, consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results and outcomes of interventions.
- Using interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team in order to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved.
- Delegating to other team members based upon acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, collective needs of patients, families and unit. Maintains accountability for achieving appropriate outcomes/goals associated with delegated acts.
Performs other functions to maintain personal competence and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the department by:
- Attending and participating in department meetings.
- Reading and maintaining accountability for knowing content from department/hospital communications
- Participating in ongoing professional education activities and maintaining awareness of advances in clinical specialty.
- Meeting all requirements; regulatory, hospital-wide and department specific, for training, testing, and validation within timelines assigned.
- Interpreting and representing Memorial Hospital's philosophy of providing exceptional patient experiences, mission, vision and values.
- Complying with established hospital/department policies.
- Fulfilling individual responsibility to meet staffing needs of the department.
- Contributing to the department's ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer focused-service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work.
- Following through and completing other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.
- Contributing to the development of co-workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance and direct feedback.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Associate complies with the following organizational requirements:
- Attends and participates in department meetings and is accountable for all information shared.
- Completes mandatory education, annual competencies and department specific education within established timeframes.
- Completes annual employee health requirements within established timeframes.
- Maintains license/certification, registration in good standing throughout fiscal year.
- Direct patient care providers are required to maintain current BCLS (CPR) and other certifications as required by position/department.
- Consistently utilizes appropriate universal precautions, protective equipment, and ergonomic techniques to protect patient and self.
- Adheres to regulatory agency requirements, survey process and compliance.
- Complies with established organization and department policies.
- Available to work overtime in addition to working additional or other shifts and schedules when required.
Commitment to Beacon's six-point Operating System, referred to as The Beacon Way:
- Leverage innovation everywhere.
- Cultivate human talent.
- Embrace performance improvement.
- Build greatness through accountability.
- Use information to improve and advance.
- Communicate clearly and continuously.
Education and Experience
- The knowledge, skills and abilities as indicated below are normally acquired through the successful completion of a nursing program from an accredited school of nursing and a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Indiana.
Knowledge & Skills
- Demonstrates a high level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment and techniques.
- Demonstrates advanced analytical skills necessary to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care.
- Demonstrates the interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, patients, visitors, physicians and others.
- Demonstrates ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a clear and concise manner.
- Requires an understanding of the need to be responsive and reasonably adaptable for scheduling purposes, when necessary, due to extenuating circumstances in support of team members and department functions.
- Requires the ability to work independently, take initiative and be self-motivated.
Working Conditions
- Works in a patient care environment requiring physical exertion, frequent changes in job demands, and certain undesirable patient care activities.
- May be exposed to biohazards.
- Must report to hospital within 30 minutes when on call.
Physical Demands
- Requires the physical ability and stamina (i.e., to remain on feet and walk for long periods of time, ability to push wheelchairs and carts, to lift or pull patients or supplies, to provide CPR, etc. and to sit for long periods of time) to perform the essential functions of the position.
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