Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Locations: Gardner, MA 01440 Duration: 13 Weeks + Extension

Essential Functions:

• Assess, reassess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provide patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respect each patient as an individual; provide care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provide patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Collaboratively plan and prepare patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegate and supervise nursing interventions performed by others.
• Appropriately prioritize patient care (e.g. seek assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassign personnel as necessary, recognize need for emergency intervention, etc.).
• Provide thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provide timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promote learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
• Proactively identify risk to patient safety and identify opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identify ethical issues in care and develop plan to address.
• Safely administer medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
• Assess patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
• Reassess effectiveness of pain control and notify physicians as needed, as well as document assessment and patients’ response to medication.
• Obtain supporting information and complete required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the attending provider.
• Interpret and document patient cardiac rate, rhythm and configuration (PR ST segment) and initiate appropriate treatment plan based on provider orders.
• Provide ongoing assessment and teaching to the surgical patient/family, utilizing current standards and protocols.
• Recognize normal and deviant progress patterns and report problems or concerns to physician in a timely manner.
• Utilize pain management devices and other techniques to ensure proper pain relief.
• Set up, maintain and troubleshoot other equipment related to the surgical patient such as; traction/orthopedic equipment/devices, feeding pumps, chest tubes and drains, etc.