Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department - per week

TalentBurst, Inc is seeking a travel nurse RN ED - Emergency Department for a travel nursing job in Texarkana, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

Specialty: ED - Emergency Department

Discipline: RN

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 13 weeks

36 hours per week

Shift: 12 hours, days

Employment Type: Travel Travel: RN - Emergency Room

Texarkana, TX

13 week assignment

Shift: 9A-9P, rotating weekends.

No blocked scheduling.

36 hours/week

Summary:

The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.

Responsibilities:

Meets expectations of the applicable One Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.

Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.

Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.

Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.

Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.

Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families

Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members

Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice

Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals

Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s)

Performs timely reassessment and documentation

Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population

Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process

Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow

Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process

Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy

Standard III. Unit Operations

Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift

Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies

Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.

Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry

Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes

Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities

Provides evidence-based nursing care

Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry

Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Clinical Policies and Standards

Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures

Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance

Provides feedback for improvement of procedures

Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures

Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques

Health Information Documentation

Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation

Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records

Describes the flow of information between various stations or units

Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation

Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy

Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices

Medical Equipment

Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility

Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems

Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment

Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety

Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment

Medical Order Processing

Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions

Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders

Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting

Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders

Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each

Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation

Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care

Reviews patients charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions

Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff

Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned

Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others

Patient Safety

Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings

Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings

Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members

Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems

Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others

Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time

Job Requirements:

Education/Skills

Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred Experience

1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

BLS required

RN License in state of employment or compact

ACLS

PALS

TNCC

Position Requirements:

Education:

All newly hired experienced RNs must attend New Nurses Orientation within the first 30 days of hire.

New hires are precepted by a designated trained staff member and initial on-boarding requirements are validated through successful completion of the designated organizational entry competency validation and an Emergency Department-specific competency validation.

Yearly attendance at Annual Nursing Competency Day.

Completion of all annual competency verification requirements.

Crisis intervention training within 12 months of hire and maintain training annually thereafter.

Completion of an evidence-based triage curriculum at:

12 months of hire for new graduate or inexperienced RNs (less than 1 year of nursing experience)

3 months of hire for experienced RNs (more than 1 year of nursing experience) Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:

Current PALS certification at time of hire for experienced RNs or completion by the end of the clinical orientation period for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.

Current ACLS certification at time of hire for experienced RNs or completion by the end of the clinical orientation period for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.

Crisis intervention training within 12 months of hire and maintain training annually thereafter.

For trauma designated facilities, current TNCC certification within 6 weeks of hire for experienced RNs or completion within 18 months of hire for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.

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