RN WEEKEND - HOSPICE

Job description

Competency and Experience [Knowledge, Skills and Abilities] - Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, review professional publications, establish personal networks, and participate in professional societies. - Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. - Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. - Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records. - Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs using Nurse Knowledge Exchange techniques. - Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. - Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with po...