Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $2,009 per week
Athol Hospital
Athol MA 01331 US
- Current MA RN License
- Current AHA BLS certification
- Current AHA ACLS certification
Certification Details
- Minimum Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Minimum Experience: 1 year med-surge experience preferred
- Previous telemetry experience preferred
- Skilled Nursing experience preferred
- Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience
- Essential Functions: Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner
- Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can
- Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness
- Maintains a clean and safe hospital
- Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations
- Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury
- Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure
- Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy
- Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year
- Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner
- All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene
- Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals
- Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures
- Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient's sense of dignity and positive self-regard
- Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning
- Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary
- Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others
- Appropriately prioritizes patient care
- Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards
- Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self
- Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors
- Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address
- Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders, protocols, policies and procedures
- Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale
- Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients response to medication
- Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD
- Performs pre-admission testing on Med/Surg. patients
- Performs nursing assessment and coordinates ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery
- Reviews pre-operative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines
- Reviews test results, checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon, anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery
- Reviews preoperative chart for completeness
- Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery
- Initiates and documents post-operative phone calls to Med/Surg. patients
- Statement of Other Duties: This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
Job Details
- Current MA RN License
- Current AHA BLS certification
- Current AHA ACLS certification
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- 1 year med-surge experience preferred
- Previous telemetry experience preferred
- Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience
Job Requirements