RN-GI FT days w/ On-Call

Registered Nurse-GI FT days w/ On Call required ($4.00)

Essential

Duties: and Responsibilities:

• 1.
• Plans, provides, supervises and documents professional nursing care utilizing the nursing process for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures.
• 2.
• Communicates and collaborates with nurses, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team to develop a plan of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes and continuity of care.
• 3.
• Charts observations and activities related to patient care in electronic health record.
• 4.
• Provides safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care for a patient population using critical thinking skills, advocacy abilities and ethical approaches.
• 5.
• Guides and directs assigned unlicensed assistive personnel in delivering interdisciplinary patient care.
• 6.
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition and reports changes to the physician.
• 7.
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, infection control and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standards.
• 8.
• Actively participates in Quality Assurance/Process Improvement initiatives to improve patient safety and outcomes, such as monitoring compliance of core measures, infection control practices, etc.
• 9.
• Educates patient/family prior to discharge regarding the diagnosis, medication and discharge instructions.
• 10.
• Collects blood specimens by venipuncture or microtechniques for laboratory analysis necessary for patient treatment and diagnosis.

Department Specific

Duties: and Responsibilities:

• 1.
• Administer Moderate sedation.
• 2.
• Answer patient questions and addressing their concerns.
• 3.
• Observe patient vital signs and document per protocol.
• 4.
• Monitor recovering patients after procedures.
• 5.
• Administer the necessary medication to patients.