Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg / Telemetry
Goldsboro, NC
Integrated Healthcare Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

Job Opportunity: RN - MedSurg/Tele

Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina
Employment Type: Clinical Nursing
Contract Length: 13 weeks

Job Summary

Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards in a hospital setting. Responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process.

Essential Duties

• Participate in identifying and meeting own learning needs.
• Attend education programs based on learning needs.
• Use patient education materials relevant to patient population with assistance.
• Assess readiness to learn of patient/family/caregivers and developmental level.
• Identify expected patient outcomes and seek guidance for plan of care revisions.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to evaluate patient care and communicate relevant information.
• Demonstrate competence in care of patients with complex problems including physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects.
• Perform bedside point of care testing as required.
• Follow healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
• Organize and prioritize care according to patient/family needs.
• Consult appropriate resources timely for complex care issues or discharge planning.
• Develop professional growth goals with assistance and participate in unit goals and performance improvement.
• Promote cost-effective care and a safe, clean, secure hospital environment.
• Recognize data from complex situations to determine care priorities including physical, psychosocial, education, and safety needs.
• Assess and anticipate discharge needs and develop relationships with families to support advocacy.
• Collaborate with patient/family to prepare or update plan of care using multidisciplinary resources.
• Address cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Engage in research by reading relevant journals and contributing ideas/questions for practice assessment.

Required Qualifications

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in North Carolina
• Minimum 2 years of Med Surg nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) from an accredited school of nursing
• Experience with Epic electronic health record system