Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
Registered Nurse Medical Duties & Responsibilities
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Registered Nurse Medical Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Registered Nurse Medical
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CPR, ACLS, NIH, BCLS, NRP, PALS
Education for Registered Nurse Medical
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the registered nurse medical job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Nursing Program, Department of Nursing, Associates, Education, Graduate, Science, School of Nursing, Department of Education, Nursing Education
Skills for Registered Nurse Medical
Desired skills for registered nurse medical include:
Desired experience for registered nurse medical includes:
Registered Nurse Medical Examples
Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
- Participates, develops, and implements performance and/or quality improvement initiatives as outlined by the Healthcare for the Homeless Medical Respite Program guideliines
- Travel to various satellite locations required
- Utilizing the nursing process effectively identifies actual and potential problems and develops/carries out the plan of care for the complex patient
- Initiates, and revises as necessary, the plan of care, which meets the unit standards
- Makes clinical decisions independently based on scientific principles, systematic approach and experience
- Utilizes internal and community resources in planning care and initiating referrals
- Documents nursing intervention and patient/family response accurately, legibly, and in compliance with hospital policies
- Aligns patient safety, self-safety and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes
- Assess & reassess patient condition, initiate plan of care and begin discharge planning on admission
- Meet the personal and practical needs of patients and families as described in "Patients First Service" while using appropriate &
- More than one year recent Medical, Surgical, Telemetry, and/or Cardiac RN experience
- Experience with conscious sedation preferred
- RN experience preferred
- CCRN required for M-ICU within two years of hire date
- Must maintain eight stroke competencies per year
- Current proficiency preferred in skilled initiation and maintenance of IV Therapy
Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
- Prepares patients for scheduled procedures and assists in patient assessment
- Assists providers with examinations, procedures and other processes related to direct patient care
- Inspects area daily for compliance with policies, procedures, regulations and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur
- Prior experience with psychiatric, memory care or similar patients a plus!
- Advanced Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) credentialed from the American Heart Association preferred
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Management
- The Registered Nurse provides care for the adolescent patient 12-16 years of age, adult patients between 17 to 60 years
- Conducts clinical assessment prior to any treatment or procedure as applicable
- Determines medication to be administered, its action, indications, therapeutic effects, adverse reaction, Administers medications timely and accurately per protocol
- Ensures all sterilized materials meet standards
- Med/Surg experience with emphasis on care of the patient with aleration in renal function preferred
- Med/Surg experience with emphasis on care of the patient with CVA and alteration in neurological function preferred
- NIHSS certification within 90 days of hire
- Successful completion of the ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course
- Minimum of one year of current oncology, or infusion oncology nursing experience, preferably in an acute care facility
- Valid TX RN license
Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
- Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards
- Serves as a role model for other members of the team
- Provides leadership within the clinical setting
- Retrieves initial basic condition of patients, creates nursing history and reports to appropriate practitioner
- Maintains a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/families during their visit
- Schedules all outside patient appointments per physician order and relays accurately to patients
- Assure test results are received and relayed to the patient in a timely manner
- Completes medical orientation checklist
- Initiates appropriate patient education
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members
- ABG within six (6) months
- Current Arkansas or Compact State RN licensure
- At least 1 year RN experience required
- Med/Surg experience with emphasis on care of the patient with CVA and alteration in neurological function preferred, training offered for motivated New Graduate Nurses
- Requires 2 years minimum of Telemetry nursing experience to be considered
- ACLS preferred, BLS required, PALS for specific units
Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
- Implements care appropriate to diagnosis and per physician order
- Problem solves and coordinates clinic patient care with physician supervision
- Demonstrates competence in performing skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to the age-specific needs of the population served
- Assesses students upon admission and throughout their participation in our therapeutic milieu utilizing observational and interviewing skills
- Reviews overall student status every shift by reviewing physician orders, student treatment plan, and multi-disciplinary notes as applicable
- Helps to develop an individualized treatment plan in conjunction with student, family and treatment team members
- Works with the Director of Nursing and LPN’s in auditing the student charts on a weekly basis to insure compliance with outside regulators
- Monitors and insures that all psychotropic medications are accounted for on a daily basis
- Facilitate health education townhouses/trainings on a variety of topics as needed
- Evaluates and documents the effectiveness of care and modifies nursing components of the patient’s treatment plan accordingly
- As validated by RN II/III/IV formulates a plan of care for patients with uncomplicated medical problems in collaboration with patient and family, through observation of the patient’s physical condition and behavior and interpretation of information obtained from the patient and others which ensures that direct and indirect nursing care provides for the patient’s safety, comfort, hygiene and restorative measures
- Performs skills essential to the kind of nursing action to be taken, explains the health treatment to the patient and family and teaches the patient and family how to care for the client’s health needs
- Delegates tasks to health team members based on their legal scope of practice and capabilities, follows up with health care team members and provides effective clinical guidance of patient care being given
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the plan of care through observation of the patient’s physical condition and behavior, signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to treatment and through communication with the patient and health care team members and modifies the plan as needed
- Acts as the patient’s advocate, as circumstances require, by working with resources to initiate the procedure to improve health care or to change decisions or activities which are against the interests or wishes of the patient and by giving the patient and family the opportunity to make informed decisions about health care before it is provided
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of the orientation program for new personnel and the clinical education of nursing students and makes suggestions for specific changes to these programs
Registered Nurse Medical Job Description
- Communicates effectively with all department heads as part of the team management system at Capital Academy
- Triages patient phone calls and portal messages
- Assists with the coordination of patient’s care
- National certification (CCRN) required within 6 months of eligibility
- Prior hospital nursing experience a plus
- Twelve (12) months acute care experience working with the patient population similar to department of hire or completion of the specialty residency located at Swedish Edmonds
- The Registered Nurse complies with the performance criteria applicable to the specific Registered Nurse level as described in the clinical ladder program
- Advanced Life Support (ACLS, PALS, NRP) certification as required by specific hiring department criteria
- A Registered Nurse employed by GSH who has less than one (1) year of full-time prior experience
- Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) for an accredited Nursing Program
- BLS required and ACLS preferred
- NIHSS certification preferred