RN - ICU

ICU Nurse

Provides care for critically ill patients who require close monitoring and advanced interventions, usually in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. ICU nurses closely monitor patients' vital signs, administer medications, and collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Provides care to patient and family care that progresses them towards self-identified, holistic, and individualized goals.
• Performs nursing process through individualized assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, efficient care for patients.
• Promotes quality outcomes.
• Collaborates or seeks additional resources as needed in the management of complex, new/unusual, or other high-risk clinical situations.
• Serves as patient and family advocate in ensuring excellent and satisfying care.

Sharp HealthCare Registry RN Discipline - Specific Responsibilities:

The Registered Nurse is the direct and indirect provider of safe and therapeutic care for an assigned group of patients. Care is individualized and age specific using the nursing process.

• Assesses the need of patients and families • Identifies and prioritizes overt and subtle patient and family needs and goals • Documents assessment data.
• Develops a plan of action in concert with patient, family and other healthcare team members. • Uses the nursing process to safely and therapeutically care for patients. • Develops plan of care as evidenced by documentation (IPOC) and includes patient/family and members of the healthcare team.
• Implements and adapts the comprehensive, age/culturally appropriate plans using nursing interventions with patient/family. • Implements plan of care. Seeks out resources when appropriate in new situations. • Makes nursing decisions appropriate for plan of care in accordance with compliance.
• Evaluates patient's and family's progress towards goals and determines the need to alter goals and interventions. • Evaluates patient/family response to care in relation to intended goals. • Participates in patient care conferences. • Documents patients' response to care.
• Identifies and responds to patient/family educational needs through an individualized educational plan • Assesses learning needs including barriers/readiness, develops plan and implements plan of care (IPOC & IPER) using appropriate resources.
• Evaluates patient and family learning through use of adult-learning theory and revises plan as appropriate. (E.g. documented in IPER, IPOC, discharge teaching, etc.)
• Recognizes barriers to communication with the patient and family and seeks interdisciplinary expertise to establish a therapeutic relationship. • Analyzes socio-cultural variables to adapt nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
• Serves as a patient advocate through encouraging patient and family participation in decision-making and acting to uphold individual/family rights.
• Communicates patient and family care needs through documentation per department /entity guideline of care and policies and procedures.
• Delegates / assigns care to other healthcare team members which is within their scope of practice/competency to perform.
• Coordinates, integrates, and intervenes with other healthcare team to impact well being of patient /family. • Communicates with other healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities. • Follows through with identified actions/referrals. Identifies and communicates need for patient care conferences.
• Communicates and coordinates with other members of the health care team and ancillary staff to expedite patient progress and/or workflow.