Telemetry Nurse

Telemetry /Progressive Care LPN/RN

Overview:

• Job Category: Acute - Nursing - Travel
• Skills: Two years of the following experience is required: Medical/Surgical experience (1 year) Telemetry experience (1 year) IV Insertion and phlebotomy conscious sedation
• Education: RN License - required Primary Source Verification - required AHA BLS - required AHA ACLS - required TCAR for Surgery - preferred Conscious Sedation certification - preferred
• Certifications & Licenses: RN License

The Telemetry /Progressive Care LPN/RN, as a professional practitioner who assumes the responsibility and accountability for delivery of patient care of telemetry/progressive care patients. The nurse demonstrates ability to make clinical judgments in an effective and efficient manner with supervision. The nurse demonstrates critical thinking and performance ability in the coordination of patient care. Consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountable in managing patient care and assisting others in the management of patient care.

Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care on telemetry unit.
• Performs focused interview to identify specific patient's needs.
• Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psycho-social changes in the patient's condition.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
• Documents the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
• Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
• Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education.
• Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
• Documents patient's response to nursing and other interventions.
• Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities
• Monitors safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.
• Supports professional practice by observing the following: Uses knowledge and practices in accordance with 1) the Nurse Practice Act 2) Standards of Nursing Practice; 3) Standards of Patient Care; 4) Joint Commission, state and local laws; 5) Patient's Bill of Rights; and 6) Maxim Healthcare, nursing and client hospital policies
• Other duties as assigned