Certification Details Current MA RN License Current AHA BLS certification Current AHA ACLS certification Job Details Minimum Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing Minimum Experience: 1 year med-surge experience preferred Previous telemetry experience preferred Skilled Nursing experience preferred Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience Essential Functions: Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness Maintains a clean and safe hospital Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient's sense of dignity and positive self-regard Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others Appropriately prioritizes patient care Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care Promotes learning for colleagues and self Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders, protocols, policies and procedures Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients response to medication Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD Performs pre-admission testing on Med/Surg. patients Performs nursing assessment and coordinates ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery Reviews pre-operative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines Reviews test results, checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon, anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery Reviews preoperative chart for completeness Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery Initiates and documents post-operative phone calls to Med/Surg. patients Statement of Other Duties: This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described. Job Requirements Current MA RN License Current AHA BLS certification Current AHA ACLS certification Graduate of an accredited school of nursing 1 year med-surge experience preferred Previous telemetry experience preferred Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience