RN-Critical Care - King's Daughters

• JOB SUMMARY
  • Provides total patient care for the pre, intra and post-procedural patient in accordance with physician’s orders and individual patient needs in conformance with the recognized standards of nursing practice.
• DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Overall performance rating of below indicated essential job duties:
  • Performs patient safety initiatives, while performing various roles such as scrubbing and circulating, throughout the procedural process.
  • Assesses patient and/or conducts screenings and documents utilizing standard scales when indicated as required per organization.
  • Documents changes in patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care/intervention.
  • Utilizes organization-wide safe medication practices including, but not limited to the 5 rights of medication administration, barcode scanning and other medication safety processes specific to the unit/department. Knows actions and usual dosage, indications and side effects of medications administered.
  • Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant other as needed according to the care, treatment services and identified risks specific to the patient and documents patient and/or family understanding.
• EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS
  • Minimum requirement:
    • Graduate from an accredited school of nursing for Registered Nurses.
    • Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any other states as applicable.
    • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
    • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of start.
  • Preferred qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• WORKING ENVIRONMENT
  • Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
  • Constantly exposed toblood and/or body fluids andinfection.
  • Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
  • Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS
  • Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
  • Frequently required to walk and move about.
  • Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
  • Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
  • Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
  • Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
  • Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
  • Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
  • Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.

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