STAFF NURSE RN ANTICOAG

Job Description Summary

Provides professional nursing care for patients, following established standards and practices. Duties include but are not limited to rooming patients, taking necessary vital signs and measurements, performing treatments and procedures as ordered by the provider, administering medications and vaccines as ordered by the provider and communicating with patients, providing counseling and education

Job Description

• Job Description

  ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  1 - Medication Administration

  a - *Demonstrates knowledge of and follows SSH policies and procedures for administering and documenting medications.

  b - *Completes medication reconciliation process following SSH policy and procedure.

  c - *Demonstrates safe procedures for the safe administration of medication and vaccines.

  2 - Plan of care/Documentation/Patient Family Centered Care/Patient Experience
  Develops, discusses, and communicates a prioritized problem and plan of care for each patient.

  a - Develops, evaluates and updates individualized plan for patient and documents outcomes.

  b – Initiates patient outreach, identifies and documents patient/family/significant other needs and makes appropriate interventions, evaluating outcomes of interventions.

  c - Continues assessment/reassessment and identifies care needs within established nursing practice.

  d - Documents all patient care following the department of nursing policy, department-based standards, disease processes (CHF, PNA vaccines) and nurse sensitive indicators (falls, safety risk, isolation, etc.)

  e - Assess/reassesses and documents patient's response to each intervention both pharmacological and non-pharmacological per South Shore Health and ambulatory policies and procedures.

  f - Works on behalf of patient /family. Seeks help to represent patient/family when they are unable to represent themselves.

  g - Raises ethical questions and concerns with clinical team. Seeks available resources to help formulate and understand ethical decisions.

  h - Actively communicates and collaborates with health team members: primary care, specialty care, and ancillary providers and departments.

  i - Facilitates care across the continuum to ensure patient needs are met in the right setting and at the right time.

  3 - Safety/Quality - Foster's a "Culture of Safety" through personal ownership and commitment to a safe environment.

  a - Verifies patient identification with two identifiers prior to the start of any procedure, including "time out