ER Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Schedule: Nights and weekends (rotating)

Shift Differential: $4.25/hr (nights), $2.00/hr (weekends)

Role summary:

• Consistently deliver the best in customer service and patient care. As a team member, demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with patients, families, visitors and other employees
• Champion PCMC’s mission, vision and values; comply with the policies and procedures, ethical standards and code of conduct set forth by the company
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Identifies and monitors patient care requirements by recording and reporting symptoms and changes in patients' conditions. Record patients' medical information and vital signs. Administers medications as ordered.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses, conditions and physician orders.
• Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Review, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions through the collaboration with an inter-disciplinary team of health care providers.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Ensures operation of equipment following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Delegate and supervise personnel
• Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
• Coordinate admissions and discharge planning.
• Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, childbirth, and develop health improvement programs.
• Direct and coordinate infection control programs, advising and consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
• Provide or arrange for training/instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
• Engage in research activities related to nursing.

Qualifications:

• 1 year of Acute Care ER experience Required.
• Florida RN license and/or approved multistate RN license required. Compact license holders have 60 days to obtain the Florida license after relocation
• Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Associate Degree

**Compensation discussed during interview process