Registered Nurse-Hourly Per Diem

Registered Nurse-Hourly Per Diem

Job Category: Center

Part-Time

May Street Surgi Center | 2234-001 Edison Twp, NJ 08837-3267, USA

Description

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Obtains and documents patient's medical history and perform physical assessment
• Uses proper techniques and procedures according to accepted standards of practice and center policies and procedures
• Ability to apply dressings and assess status
• Ability to safely use medical equipment per manufacturer's instructions for use
• Ability to insert, assess, or discontinue various catheters and tubes
• Effectively organizes and avoids wasteful practices of time, equipment, and supplies
• Observes universal precautions
• Attends all required education
• Regular and predictable attendance
• Performs other duties as assigned

Regulatory/Compliance:

• Contributes to the progress and development of the center's compliance program
• Performs according to accreditation requirements, regulatory standards and center policies and procedures
• Adheres to patients' rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Adheres to rules and regulations for Protected Health Information (PHI) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) protections of patient information

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI):

• Performs according to the centers adopted policies and procedures
• Ensures compliance with the center's adopted quality assurance performance improvement program (QAPI), policies and procedures
• Proactively contributes to the QAPI process and identifies his or her own role and contributions

Safety:

• Adheres to best practices and regulations adopted, to provide safety in the workplace
• Uses surgical safety checklist
• Monitors the Center's physical environment to ensure the maintenance of safety, comfort, cleanliness, and efficiency
• Monitors the care, cleaning, and required maintenance of equipment to maintain proper working conditions
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations and hazards to the Safety Officer; ensure ongoing policy/procedure compliance
• Adheres to OSHA regulations in performing job duties and responsibilities

Communication:

• Ability to professionally and effectively communicate patient care needs and significant information to healthcare team to promote continuity of patient care in a clear and concise manner
• Works collaboratively with center leadership on patient and staff scheduling according to policies, procedures, and center needs
• Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions, and professionally interact with physicians, managers, employees, clients, vendors, and the general public
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful and considerate manner

Teamwork:

• Works collaboratively with the healthcare team
• Delegates staffing duties appropriately to unlicensed assistive personnel and LVN/LPN, accordance with scope of practice and center policies and procedures
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure non-compliance to Center Leader, Safety Officer, and Clinical Director
• Actively participates in staff meetings, in-services, continuing education, and the quality improvement (QAPI) program

Financial Practices:

• Uses Center resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

Professional competence:

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• At a minimum, maintains membership in professional organizations per center requirements
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with center personnel
• Assists Center Leadership with orientation and training of new personnel
• Demonstrates ability to act as a resource for problems related to patient care

Essential values, codes of conduct:

• Demonstrates knowledge of and adheres to the Code of Conduct
• Adheres to the Scope of Practice
• Supports the centers mission statement and goals
• Complies with the centers standards for ethical business conduct
• Works with Center Leadership to ensure patient and physician satisfaction
• Adheres to policies and procedures, including, but not limited to, attendance, timeliness, safeguarding confidential information
• Reports incidents in a timely manner
• Demonstrates an attitude of caring, respect, sensitivity, tact, compassion, empathy, and tolerance
• Exhibits mental alertness for quality decision making and exercises good judgment
• Exhibits high level of integrity
• Ability to multi-task effectively, efficiently, accurately, and with attention to detail

Mathematical skills:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, decimals, and percentages

Language skills:

• Ability to understand, read, write, and speak English, if bilingual Center, bilingual language is required
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to successfully write business correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions, and professionally interact with healthcare team, clients, vendors, and the general public

Reasoning ability:

• Demonstrates an ability to recognize and define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and correct errors
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions and forms to understand abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to think critically using inductive and deductive reasoning

Physical demands:

• Ability to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time, i.e., 6-8 hours per day
• Ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds in weight
• Ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously without "giving out" or fatiguing
• Ability to perform physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials
• Ability to position or transport patients, prepare medical procedure rooms, or set up patient care equipment
• Ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position
• Ability to keep or regain your body balance and stay upright
• Ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath
• Ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears
• Specific vision abilities for close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work environment:

• Days and hours of work may vary to meet patient and Center needs
• The Center is a well-lit, ventilated and climate controlled environment
• The Center may require decreased lighting to meet patient care needs or procedure requirements, such as laser rooms and some OR/Procedure rooms
• Ability to work with medical and office equipment, some of which will have moving parts
• Noise level is usually quiet to moderate
• May have exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials or toxic