RN- Acute Care

				Overview:

Registered Nurse (RN) - Acute Care  
FTE: .9 (Full-time, 36 hours per week)
Shift: Day shift 7am-7pm, includes every 3rd weekend and 2 holidays per year

Responsibilities:

* Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients, using  developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches. 
* Implement holistic, patientcentered care that reflects an understanding of human growth and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management, and nursing management across the healthillness continuum and across the lifespan. 
* Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient's support network.
* Deliver compassionate, patientcentered, evidencebased care that respects patient and family preferences.
* Implement patient and family care around resolution of end of life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences.
* Provide appropriate patient teaching that reflects developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient engagement in their care.
* Implement evidencebased nursing interventions as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients and promoting health across the lifespan.
* Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions.
* Facilitate patientcentered transitions of care, including discharge planning and ensuring the caregiver's knowledge of care requirements to promote safe care.
* Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within healthcare microsystems.
* Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.
* Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.
* Demonstrate clinical judgment and accountability for patient outcomes when delegating to and supervising other members of the healthcare team.
* Manage care to maximize health, independence, and quality of life for a group of individuals.
* Demonstrate the application of psychomotor skills for the efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of patient care.
* Develop an awareness of patients as well as healthcare professionals' spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care.
* Manage the interaction of multiple functional problems affecting patients across the lifespan, including common geriatric syndromes.
* Understand one's role and participation in emergency preparedness and disaster response with an awareness of environmental factors and the risks they pose to self and patients.
* Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a therapeutic nurse patient relationships.
* Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on the healthcare system as related to nursing practice.
* Continues professional development and involvement in professional activities that enhance nursing practice by sharing knowledge through networking and research.
* Assess and chooses teaching strategies appropriate to the patient's and their families' age specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn and level of comprehension.
* Consults appropriate resources within the hospital to provide specialized education.
* Demonstrates knowledge that patient and workplace safety is a priority by preventing errors, accidents and infections and reporting potential or actual concerns immediately.
* Engage in care of self in order to have resiliency, with the ability to accurately perceive and respond well during stressful situations. 

Qualifications:

Education:

Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing required. 

Experience:

Patient Care Tech or Certified nursing assistance experience preferred, but not required

License(s)/Certification(s):

Current RN Licensure in State of Iowa or applicable compact state (must  be licensed in state of residence)

Must possess/maintain Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and Advanced Life Support, (ACLS), completion of a hospital approved crucial care course

Cardiac - Vascular Nursing Board Certified ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center)

or

Certified Medical - Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN) MSNCB Medical Surgical Nursing Certification Board.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Writes, reads, comprehends and speaks fluent English.

Multicultural sensitivity.

Microsoft Office - basic computer skills.

Customer/patient focused.

Critical thinking skills using independent judgment in making decisions.
			

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