Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $1,449 per week

Company: University of North Carolina Health Care System -
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

• Job Details
• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
• Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
  • Job Requirements
  • One (1) year of nursing experience.
    • Unit Specific Information
    • Education: Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
    • Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
    • With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
    • Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
    • Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
    • Evaluation of Care -Identifies expected patient outcomes.
    • Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
    • Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
    • Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
    • Implementation: Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
    • Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
    • Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
    • Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
    • Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
    • Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
    • Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
    • Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
    • Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
    • Effectively uses communication systems.
    • Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
    • Gives feedback to co-workers.
    • Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
    • Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
    • Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
    • Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
    • Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
    • Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
    • Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
    • Planning: Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
    • Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
    • Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
    • Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
    • Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
    • Research: Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
    • Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.
      • Additional Details
      • Preferred Skills & Experience: N/A

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