Duties:
- Utilize the nursing process in the provision of direct patient care.
- Responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating, and coordinating all care provided to assigned patients.
- Delivery of care is based on the standards of care and practices established by the Department of Nursing and other policies and procedures (hospital, nursing, multidisciplinary).
- Diagnose and treat human responses to actual and potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling, and provision of supportive care or restorative of life and well-being.
- Supervise patient care provided by licensed practical nurses (LPNs), registered nurses on permit (RNP), nursing attendants, technicians, and supplemental staff.
Responsibilities :
- Assess the immediate and continuing care needs of the patient/significant other
- Develop comprehensive and current plans of care which include physical needs, patient, patient teaching, and discharge planning and psychosocial/spiritual needs
- Provide direct patient care based on assessed needs and the medical regimen. Oversees and ensures the provision of all aspects of care for the patient. Supervises the care provided by other nursing personnel as defined in the scope of practice
- Observe, evaluate, document, and communicate to relevant team members the patient's response to illness and/or therapeutic modalities. Ensures timely reassessment of patient responses to treatment and when significant changes occur in patient condition and/or diagnosis.
- Coordinate the overall plan of care to ensure implementation of nursing interventions and consistency with medical regimen.
- Accept responsibility and accountability for nursing interventions and outcomes based on professional clinical judgments.
- Participate in QI activities related to patient care delivery and the development of nursing/hospital standards
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, manage stressful situations appropriately, and facilitate interpersonal relationships with other disciplines.
Education:
Required: BSN prepared, 3 -5 years’ experience in a Level I or II Trauma Center, TCAR, BLS, ACLS.
Competent in CRRT, Impella, Swan-Ganz, A-lines, vent/tracheostomy and gastrostomy tubes and medication titration.
Preferred: CCRN, TCRN certifications
Schedule: DAYS - 8A - 830P - 3 DAYS PER WEEK AND EVERY OTHER WEEKEND REQUIRED
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Job Type: Contract
Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Medical specialties:
Physical setting:
- Acuity adaptable unit
- Acute care
- Ambulatory surgery center
- Assisted living facility
- Birth center
- Burn center
- Children's hospital
- Clinic
- Community health center
- CVICU
- ER
- Hospital
- ICU
- Inpatient
- JCAHO accredited facility
- Level III trauma center
- Level II trauma center
- Level I trauma center
- Level IV trauma center
- Long term care
- Low acuity unit
- Magnet hospital
- Medical laboratory
- MICU
- Neuro ICU
- NICU
- Nursing home
- Operating room
- Outpatient
- PACU
- PCU
- PICU
- Plasma center
- Rehabilitation center
- SICU
- Skilled nursing facility
- Sleep center
- TICU
- Urgent care center
Standard shift:
Weekly schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
- Brooklyn, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person