Registered Nurse - RN - Critical Care
Location: Macungie, Pennsylvania
Description: Maxim Healthcare Services is looking of Registered Nurse - RN - Critical Care right now, this job will be assigned in Pennsylvania. Further informations about this job opportunity please read the description below. Performs nursing history and physical assessment on an ongoing basis. In conjunction with the patient and family, develops individualized patient care plan based o! n nursing diagnosis. Provides direct nursing care based on the plan of care and established priorities. Evaluates and documents the patient/family response to nursing care based on the plan of care and established priorities. Maintains a safe working environment, adheres to all policies and procedures and reports problems or concerns to charge nurse or Manager.
Responsibilities include:
- Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
- Performs focused interview to identify specific patient’s needs.
- Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
- Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual
- Plans for expected outcomes of care for those patients assigned.
- Communicates nursing interventions, expected ou! tcomes and the time frames for expected completion to other members of the hospital health care team.
- Functions as a resource to the health care team members in planning for patient’s discharge.
- Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and
- Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
- Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.
- Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient
- Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment.
- Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education.
- Compares expected and actual outcomes of care and identifies deviation from the plan of care.
- Other duties as assigned
- Current Health Certificate (if applicable).
- Current PPD or Chest X-Ray.
- The physical ability and perceptual acuity, (e.g., visual, hearing) to satisfactorily perform all direct and
- Full command, verbal and written, of the English language.
- Demonstrate good interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively use the nursing process.
- Minimum of one year acute care experience in the area of expertise within the last three years preferred.
- Current BLS card; current ACLS/PALS card (per facility requirement).
- Successful completion of the Maxim screening for the clinical specialty area(s) in which the RN practices
- Maxim background screening
- Medical, Dental, V! ision, and Life Insurance
- 401k Program
- Competitive Pay
- Flexible Scheduling
- Direct Deposit
- Positive Work Environment and Internal Bonuses
- Travel Benefits (as applicable)
- 24 hour on- call service
EOE/AAE
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This job will be opened on: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:02:03 GMT
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