Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryNursing & Frontline Patient Care
About the job
Requirements
Graduate of an accredited nursing program and hold current Washington State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
Be active on the Washington State Registry.
Hold current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification upon hire and throughout employment.
Hold current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications upon hire or obtain them within three months of hire.
Hold current Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) training and certification upon hire or obtain them within one year of hire.
Responsibilities
Provide individualized care to emergent, acute, swing bed, and long-term swing bed patients in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
Obtain comprehensive nursing histories and perform basic physical assessments, collecting ongoing data on patients' biophysical, psychosocial, self-care, health maintenance, discharge planning, and environmental needs.
Follow department and facility policies, procedures, goals, and standards of care.
Serve as a clinical resource for patient and family education needs.
Identify emergent situations and respond appropriately.
Identify abnormal diagnostic data, understand its implications, and report it to the health care provider.
Initiate and maintain plans of care based on priorities, essential needs, and available resources; assess intervention effectiveness and revise care plans as needed.
Perform basic technical skills within the scope of service, including IV therapy, treatments, catheter insertion, nasogastric tube insertion, and CPR.
Base decisions and performance on facts, evidence-based research, best practices, diseases, injuries, required care, and the standard of care for the patient population served.
Administer medications and IV fluids correctly based on patient age and clinical condition, including starting IV fluids and medications.
Use cardiac monitoring and identify arrhythmias.
Operate essential equipment on all units and complete annual proficiency skills reviews.
Draw and process laboratory tests, report results, perform quality control when laboratory personnel are unavailable, and complete annual laboratory competency requirements.
Arrange ambulance services or other emergency transport as needed.
Perform emergency department triage, admission, initial and ongoing assessments, documentation, and discharge within scope of practice.
Clean the emergency department after use and replace necessary equipment and supplies.
Maintain the knowledge and skills required to work competently across all nursing units, including North Wing, West Wing, the emergency department, and outpatient services.
Collaborate with peers and team members using tactful, diplomatic communication in sensitive or emotionally charged situations.
Make decisions, take appropriate action, and follow tasks through to completion.
Use electronic health records for admissions, required patient-type documentation, physician orders, and discharges.
Promote the facility's antimicrobial stewardship goal and prevent antimicrobial overuse.
Attend and participate in staff meetings, in-services, projects, or committees as assigned or requested.
Follow up with appropriate staff, patients, or other individuals regarding reported incidents, complaints, problems, and concerns.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Description
Registered Nurse (RN) - P/T Days
12-hour shifts
Base Pay $43.47 - $74.95/hour DOE, plus Applicable Shift Differentials
Union CBA position
Description:
Primary Focus:
Provides personal individualized care to emergent, acute, swing bed & long-term swing bed patients in collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary team to deliver safe quality care.
Essential Functions:
Obtains nursing history that is comprehensive of present condition and performs basic physical assessment, indicating knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology. Collects data in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on the biophysical, psychosocial, self-care, health maintenance, discharge planning and environmental needs of the patient.
Supports, promotes, and follows department and facility policies, procedures, goals, and standards of care.
Functions as a clinical resource to address patient/family education needs.
Identifies emergent situations and responds appropriately.
Identifies abnormal diagnostic data and demonstrates a fundamental understanding of its implications by reporting information to the Health Care Provider.
Initiates/maintains plan of care based on established priorities, essential needs and available resources. Assess on an ongoing basis the effectiveness of intervention and revises the plan of care as needed.
Performs competently those technical skills considered basic to the scope of service. (IV therapy, treatments, catheter insertion, NG insertion. CPR, etc.)
Decisions and performance reflect knowledge of facts, evidence-based research and best practices, diseases, injuries, care required and standard of care for the specific population on the unit.
Knowledge of medications and IV fluids and their correct administration, based on the age of the patient and their clinical condition. (Start IV fluids & medications).
Knowledge of cardiac monitoring; can identify arrhythmias.
Knowledge and skill in operating essential equipment on all units and completes annual proficiency skills reviews.
Draws, processes, results laboratory tests, performs QC when lab personnel not available. Complete annual laboratory competency.
Arranges for ambulance services or other emergency transports as required.
Responsible for ER triage, admit, initial assessments, ongoing assessments, documentation and discharge with-in scope of practice.
Ensures ER cleaned after use and replaces necessary equipment and supplies.
Knowledge and skills appropriate for all nursing units (North Wing, West Wing, ER, and Outpatient Services) and competent ability to work in all nursing units of OMHC.
Works collaboratively with peer and team members, using tactful, diplomatic communication techniques in potentially sensitive or emotionally charged situations.
Demonstrates the ability to make decisions, take appropriate action and follow tasks through to completion.
Knowledge of Electronic Health Records (admitting, appropriate documentation required for each patient type, physician orders, and discharge)
Employee is aware of and actively promotes facility goal relative to practicing antimicrobial stewardship and prevention of antimicrobial overuse.
Attends and participates in staff meetings and in-services, projects or committees as assigned or requested.
Follows up with appropriate staff, patients or other individuals regarding reported incidents, complaints, problems, and concerns.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Benefits:
At OMHC we value our employees and one of the ways that we show that is in our amazing benefits package.
We have 6 paid holidays a year, as well as
Generous paid PTO vacation time along with EIB sick leave, with PTO Cash back availability.
We offer an EAP (Employee Assistance Plan) for you and your eligible dependents at no cost to you.
We also offer a generous retirement program, as our 401 matches at up to 6%, after meeting vesting requirements which is vested after 12 months or 1,000 hours worked.
Requirements
Required Education and Certification
Graduate of an accredited nursing program and current licensure in the State of Washington as a Registered Nurse (RN).
Active on the Registry for WA State
Current BLS upon hire and for duration of employment
Current ACLS and PALS certification upon hire or within 3 months of hire
Current TNCC training and certification upon hire or within 1 year of hire