Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $1,485 per week at University of North Carolina Health Care System - 101 Manning Drive , UNC Main Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
About the Job
- Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
- Education: Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
- Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
- With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
- Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
- Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
- Evaluation of Care -Identifies expected patient outcomes.
- Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
- Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
- Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
- Implementation: Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
- Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
- Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
- Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
- Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
- Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
- Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
- Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
- Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
- Effectively uses communication systems.
- Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
- Gives feedback to co-workers.
- Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
- Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
- Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
- Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
- Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
- Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
- Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
- Planning: Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
- Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
- Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
- Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
- Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
- Research: Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
- Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.
Job Details
- One (1) year of nursing experience.
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