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Job Description: The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members. Assess: Plan: Implement: Evaluate: Professionalism: - Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate). - Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others. - Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. - Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. - Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up). - Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordinat...