NEW GRAD REGISTERED NURSES - NIGHT SHIFT

Staff RN

The Staff RN uses the nursing process to deliver nursing care to a given patient care population as it relates to the care setting. Nursing care is based on the interpretation and execution of the medical and nursing plan of treatment utilizing established procedures standards and protocols of individuals within the assigned work shift. The Staff RN provides nursing care to the population served in the unit.

Core Competencies

Adheres to infection prevention guidelines

Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care

Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status

Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care

Complies with Joint Commission's national patient safety goals

Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals

Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process

Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession

Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model

Participates in organizational activities

Participates in Peer Review

Participates in professional development activities

Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner

Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles

Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient

Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs

Utilizes resources in an economical manner

Utilizes safe administration of medications

Utilizes Safe Patient Handling

Department Specific Competencies

Manipulates the patients surroundings for promotion of optimal comfort

Facilitates the use of posture and movement in daily activities to prevent fatigue and musculoskeletal strain or injury

Regulates energy use to treat or prevent fatigue and optimize function

Promotes and assists with walking to maintain or restore autonomic and voluntary body functions during treatment and recovery from illness or injury

Facilitates regular physical exercise to maintain or advance to a higher level of fitness and health

Uses active or passive body movements to maintain or restore joint flexibility

Positions the patient or a body part to provide comfort, reduce the risk of skin breakdown, promote skin integrity, and/or promote healing

Establishes and maintains a regular pattern of bowel elimination

Manages a patient with a gastrointestinal tube

Manages a patient with urinary drainage equipment

Establishes a predictable pattern of bladder emptying to prevent incontinence for persons with limited cognitive ability who have urge, stress or functional incontinence

Maintains elimination through a stoma and cares for surrounding tissue

Assists with or provides a balanced dietary intake of foods and fluids

Administers food and fluids to support metabolic processes of a patient who is malnourished or at high risk for becoming malnourished

Facilitates swallowing and prevents complications of impaired swallowing

Maintains and promotes oral hygiene and dental health for the patient at risk for developing oral or dental lesions

Prevents or minimizes risk factors in the patient at risk of aspiration

Maintains ET and Trach tubes and prevents complications associated with their use

Facilitates regular sleep/wake cycles

Uses pharmacologic agents to reduce or eliminate pain

Collects and analyzes patient data to maintain skin and mucous membrane integrity

Protects and safely reintegrates the affected part of the body while helping the patient adapt to disturbed perceptual abilities

Assists with specific physical, cognitive, social and spiritual activities to increase the range, frequency, or duration of an individuals activity

Behavior Management - helps a patient to manage negative behaviors

Behavior Modification - promotes behavioral change

Body Image Enhancement - improves a patients conscious and unconscious perceptions and attitudes toward his/her body

Communication Enhancement: Hearing Deficit - assists in accepting and leaning alternate methods for living with diminished hearing

Communication Enhancement: Speech - assists in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with impaired speech

Communication Enhancement: Visual Deficit - assists in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with diminished vision

Coping Enhancement - assists a patient to adapt to perceived stressors, changes or threats which interfere with meeting life demands and roles

Decision making support - Provides information and support for a patient family member who is making a decision regarding health care

Delirium Management - provides a safe and therapeutic environment for the patient who is experiencing an acute confusional state

Provides a modified environment for the patient who is experiencing a chronic confusional state

Promotes awareness of personal identity, time and environment and situation

Uses the recall of past events, feelings and thoughts to facilitate adaptation to present circumstances

Promotes physical comfort and psychological peace in the final phase of life

Assists with the resolution of a significant loss

Learning Facilitation - promotes the ability to process and comprehend information

Mutual Goal Setting - collaborates with patient to identify and prioritize care goals, then develops a plan for achieving those goals through the construction and use of goal attaining scaling

Identifies high-risk dependent relationships and takes actions to prevent possible or further infliction of physical, sexual, emotional harm and neglect of basic necessities of life

Plans and evaluates patient care with health professionals from other disciplines

Education

Degree - Program

College Diploma - Nursing

BSN/MSN Degree or Associate degree in Nursing - Bachelors or Masters program with completion within 3 years.

Registered Nurse License

BCLS or ACLS Certification

Compensation Range:$56.12 - $56.63 / Hour

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