95125b656de1-37437-38457113

King's Daughters • 41101 • 16h ago

RN-Critical Care

Ashland-KY-41101-United States

JOB SUMMARY
- Provides total patient care for the pre, intra and post-procedural patient in accordance with physician’s orders and individual patient needs in conformance with the recognized standards of nursing practice.
DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Performs patient safety initiatives, while performing various roles such as scrubbing and circulating, throughout the procedural process.
- Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:
- Assesses patient and/or conducts screenings and documents utilizing standard scales when indicated as required per organization.
- Documents changes in patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care/intervention.
- Utilizes organization-wide safe medication practices including, but not limited to the 5 rights of medication administration, barcode scanning and other medication safety processes specific to the unit/department. Knows actions and usual dosage, indications and side effects of medications administered.
- Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant other as needed according to the care, treatment services and identified risks specific to the patient and documents patient and/or family understanding.
EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum requirement:
  - Graduate from an accredited school of nursing for Registered Nurses.
  - Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any other states as applicable.
  - Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
  - Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of start.
- Preferred qualifications:
  - Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
- Constantly exposed toblood and/or body fluids andinfection.
- Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
- Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
- Frequently required to walk and move about.
- Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
- Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
- Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
- Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
- Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
- Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.

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