Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $1,974 per week

Company: Centura Health Corporation - 2222 North Nevada Ave
Location: Colorado Springs
Posted on: October 23, 2024

Job Description:

• Job Details
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promotes the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
  • Job Requirements
  • Minimum Experience Requirements: One year experience preferred.
  • Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.
    • Schedule Information
    • Float Requirements: - Floating may be required to any Centura location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location or Centura-identified 'float zone'.
      • Unit Specific Information
      • Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
      • Evaluates patient's response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome.
      • Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
      • Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IV's, incision/ wound care, medication administration, catheterization and specimen collections.
      • Promote, advocate and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
      • Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
      • Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
      • Provide relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care.
      • Delegates to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
      • Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment and supplies to provide high quality, cost effective patient care.
      • Professional role model for all staff demonstrating ethical/legal/professional nursing process.
      • Manages resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient's and unit needs.
      • Uses standards of care, hospital policies/procedures and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
      • Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
      • Precepts/mentors new staff or nursing students as needed.
      • Seeks out learning opportunities and continuing education.
      • Seeks experiences that reflect current practice in order to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
      • Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
      • Evaluates one's own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
      • Takes action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
      • Demonstrates a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation at hospital and unit based meetings.
      • Verbalizes an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
      • Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences and safe delivery of care.
      • Participate in unit-based Quality improvement, evidence-based practice and research activities.
      • Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.

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