Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg / Telemetry - $2,127 per week at Centura Health Corporation - 1050 E S Temple St
Salt Lake City, UT 84193
About the Job
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promotes the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
- 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.
- This care will be delivered with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
- 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 in order to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and life long 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.
Job Details
- One year experience preferred
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty
Job Requirements
- Minimum Experience Requirements: One year experience preferred
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty
- Float Requirements:
- -Floating may be required to any Centura location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location or Centura-identified “float zone”.
- Float assignments may include duties outside of original assignment job requirements (including skill set) in accordance with Centura policy.
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