Travel Nurse RN - PICU - Pediatric Intensive Care - $2,210 per week at Centura Health Corporation - 401 E Spruce St , St. Catherine Hos
Garden City, KS 67846
About the Job
- Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
- Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome.
- Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IV’s, incision/ wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
- Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
- Provide relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care.
- Delegates to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Professional role model for all staff demonstrating ethical/legal/professional nursing process.
- Manages resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient’s and unit needs.
- Uses standards of care, hospital policies/procedures and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precepts/mentors new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Seeks out learning opportunities and continuing education.
- Seeks experiences that reflect current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluates one’s own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Takes action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation at hospital and unit-based meetings.
- Verbalizes an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences and safe delivery of care.
- Participate in unit-based Quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
- Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Job Details
- One year experience preferred.
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.
Job Requirements
- Floating may be required to any omitted location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location or omitted-identified “float zone”.
- Float assignments may include duties outside of original assignment job requirements (including skill set) in accordance with omitted policy.
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