REGISTERED NURSE RN - 5TH FLOOR - MEDICAL TELEMETRY

Job description

Job Summary The RN assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the care for a designated group of patients. The RN coordinates, directs and actively participates as an effective member of the interdisciplinary health care team, contributing to the efficient operation of the unit and promoting positive patient outcomes. Essential Job Functions: - 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 doc...