Registered Nurse (RN) - OR - Operating Room
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
3x12 hrs

Full Time, Rotate

Up to $20,000 SOB for qualified candidates, paid over 24 months.

Position Summary

The Registered Nurse coordinates and provides safe care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. The nurse directs and coordinates the care of assigned personnel. Performs charge duties as assigned.

• Identifies problems, implements appropriate intervention and assesses skin integrity and risk for falls each shift, patient’s response to medications & treatments and completed per unit protocol.
• Medicates for pain per protocol, administers, transcribes, & documents medications as per hospital policy while adhering to hospital P&P related to blood & blood products administration.
• Observes, collects, documents and accurately records data utilizing nursing process, changes in patient status, reports to physicians & documents actions taken, and completes admission & discharge form accurately.
• Develops written plan of care, incorporates teaching component & collaborates with interdisciplinary team, sets priorities for care of patients based on acuity and/or patient preference, coordinates tests, treatments, etc. with ancillary departments, and initiates appropriate Evidenced Based Medicine tool.
• Identifies, explains, and provides adequate information of the learning needs and instructions of patient and/or significant other and/or family through-out hospitalization & discharge according to patient/families ability & willingness to learn.& initiates resources to meet these needs on admission.