RN at MU Health Care

HOURS: Monday through Friday days with rotating call and holidays. 

DEPARTMENT: Radiology 

WORK LOCATION: University Hospital, Women's Hospital and Children's & Next Gen. 

SALARY: $31.79 -$51.02/HR

BASIC FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITY:

This position is responsible for delivering exceptional nursing care to adult 
and pediatric patients by utilizing strong organizational and leadership skills 
to assess patient status, implement clinical nursing interventions to modify symptoms, and develop and implement patient care plans to enhance and improve outcomes and ensure a safe and therapeutic environment. 
This position may be required to access and administer medications within their scope of practice and according to state law. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Assess the patient throughout all phases of a procedure, from pre-procedure assessment through recovery. Communicate considerations based on history and assessment to the physician. 

Under the direction of a physician, perform moderate and deep sedation on patients per hospital policy. 
Demonstrate critical thinking and time management in patient care. Respond appropriately to emergencies. 

Assess the patient's condition and nursing needs, sets goals, and prescribe appropriate nursing actions to meet those goals and the physical, psychological, social, and rehabilitative needs of the patient, including discharge planning. 

Assess, intervene, and reassess the patient's self-report/symptoms of pain promptly. Utilize an appropriate tool for assessment and reassessment (0-10 numerical scale, FACES, or the FLACC.) 

Demonstrate an understanding of medications with regards to action and side effects. Report pertinent information to appropriate individual. Educate patients and significant others about their medications. 

Demonstrate the ability to evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions in accomplishing goals and intended patient care outcomes. 
Maintain the standards of nursing care and implements the policies and procedures of the hospital and assigned nursing unit. 
Participate in meetings, in-services, and quality and performance improvement groups. 

Maintain compliance with attendance and punctuality guidelines, and adhere to the dress code. 
Report pertinent observations and reactions regarding patients to the appropriate person (i.e. physicians, head nurse, charge nurse, and/or nursing supervisor) and record those observations accurately and concisely. 

Provide quality care to patients and work with multi-disciplinary team to ensure the highest patient satisfaction. 
May complete unit/department specific duties as outlined in department documents. 

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Supervision is received from the clinical supervisor or designee responsible for the shift and to the Department Manager.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

Functional supervision may be exercised over nursing and support staff.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Missouri Board of Nursing RN or Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN. When primary state of residency changes, compact state RNs must apply under new state of residency within thirty (30) days. 

One (1) year of acute care or emergency room RN experience. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and requires ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 lbs. 
This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. This position is in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rotating shifts as well as holiday and work during inclement weather will be required.

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job; however, completion of these duties is a measure of successful performance. Employees of this job classification are subject to performance reviews. Basic function, responsibilities and characteristics duties may change at any time with or without notice.

SAFETY SENSITIVE STATUS:

This position is considered safety sensitive.
This document is a general description of typical job duties, responsibilities and qualifications of employees holding the associated job title. Additional duties, specific qualifications and work emphasis may vary between individual positions.

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