Registered Nurse (RN)

Registered Nurse

Loyal Source Government Services is looking for two full-time registered nurses to provide onsite patient care services at Dayton VA Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.

Job Summary: Registered nurses must provide direct and indirect nursing care to the veteran population at the Dayton VA Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio. Responsibilities include contributing to patient assessments, determining priorities of care, identifying appropriate nursing interventions and therapeutic objectives, and evaluating patient outcomes. Registered nurses are expected to deliver high-quality, compassionate, and consistent care while exercising independent judgment and nursing expertise. Registered nurses must demonstrate flexibility, strong organizational skills, and the ability to utilize an interdisciplinary approach in the provision of nursing care.

Pay: $45.63 hourly

Duties:

• Perform critical care nursing to Intensive Care Unit patients.
• Performs scrub and circulating duties in the ED and the Operating Room.
• Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.
• Assess patient and plan appropriate nursing care.
• Document plan of care and care given in patient's medical record.
• Verify transcription of physician's orders, no verbal orders are to be accepted.
• Carry out prescribed physician's orders and document inpatient medical record.
• Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
• Reassess patient's condition and revise plans of care based on identified nursing problem.
• Administer medications and Intravenous (IV) therapies.
• Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of most commonly used emergency drugs and their location on crash cart.
• Assess and document patient response to medication that have been administered.
• Be able to interpret cardiac rhythms and their implications.
• Reorganize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Instruct patient/family regarding prescribed medications/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Assess patient/family knowledge level, implement plan of instructions and record patient/family demonstrated level of understanding.
• Operate defibrillator, EKG machines and cardiac monitor and other emergency technical equipment.
• Participate in discharge planning, as appropriate.
• Be able to initiate life saving measures in the absence of physicians.
• Assure content and correctness of a prepared report and sign the document to validate its content.
• Maintain neat, personal appearance and maintain professional decorum.
• Consistently, apply VA customer service standards, demonstrating helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct at all times.
• Respect patient's rights, including but not limited to visual and auditory privacy.
• May accept a verbal order in compliance with the facility policy.
• Intake and output are assessed every shift, and more frequently if indicated by specific standard nursing drug care.
• Reviews all laboratory data, and electronic medical record.
• Shall perform central line and ventilator care in compliance with HCS policy.
• Perform skin assessment and initiate measures to prevent Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU).
• Ensure that medication orders from the previous shift have been noted and either carried out or transcribed onto the medical records appropriately.
• Carry out prescribed physician orders and document in patient's medical record.
• Recognize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies and assist with surgical/diagnostic procedures.
• Care for patients with a variety of catheters and prostheses.
• Perform skin assessment and initiate measures to prevent Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU).
• Participate in discharge planning.
• Be able to initiate life saving measures in the absence of a physician.
• Maintain neat and clean personal appearance with professional decorum.
• Consistently, apply VA customer service standards, demonstrating helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct at all times.
• Respect patient rights, including but not limited to visual and auditory privacy.

Qualification:

• Required to have experience in Intensive Care, Medical-Surgical Units, Telemetry and Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Room.
• Have graduated from a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate State-accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Required to have a current license from the Ohio Board of Nursing.
• Required to have a current certification in CPR by an American Health Association Vendor.
• Required to have a current BLS certification. If assigned to a specialty clinic, contractor RNs shall also have current ACLS certification.
• A minimum of one (1) year direct patient care experience within the last three (3) years.

Additional Information:

• VA Business Hours: The hospital operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year including Federal Holidays.

Benefits: W2 pay package with paid leave, holidays and eligibility for health insurance options.