Cardiovascular intensive care unit RN - Judge Group

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit RN located in Philadelphia PA 


This job will have the following responsibilities:

• Follows the nursing process to deliver safe, compassionate, and culturally effective care. 
• Gathers and recognizes/synthesizes assessment data to determine the patient/family plan of care, pertinent data to be shared with care team, and tasks to be delegated. 
•  Recognizes and/or seeks resources to recognize clinical changes that are indicative of patient deterioration; utilizes the CAT team when appropriate. 
• Collaborates with the patient, family and multidisciplinary team to coordinate all facets of patient care.
•  Care is coordinated across the continuum – understands and utilizes case management resources.
•  Recognizes and addresses situations which present ethical dilemmas and/or moral distress. Takes steps to actively address the situation. Seeks resources as needed to resolve the situation. 
• Demonstrates competence in teaching patients/families and progresses to an expert educator of patients/families. 
• Evaluates and documents the care provided on each assigned shift. 
• Accountable for the rapid adoption and implementation of clinical practice changes into own practice. 
• Documents the evaluation of nursing interventions and outcomes of nursing care utilizing hospital standards, policies and procedures.
•  Consistently follows safe hand-off practices as defined in patient care standards and procedures. 

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Valid PA RN License
• BLS required 
• PALS cert 
• At least 12 months of current/recent RN experience in the specialty
• Must have PED's exp 
• Prefer BSN but not required
  

Contact: bkehoe@judge.com