Travel Nurse Level II RN - ED - Emergency Department
Elizabethtown, KY
LanceSoft
3x12 hrs, Nights

Job Summary: The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc. Job Responsibilities: -Assessment of Patient’s Needs -Performs and documents a comprehensive assessment in accordance with RNs’ scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures. -Considers the patient’s culture, age and developmental level. -Identifies patient risk factors and presenting complaint. -Obtains patient health information from family or others as necessary. -Collects objective/quantitative and subjective/qualitative data. -Verifies initial admission assessment, if obtained by other members of the healthcare team. -Develops a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate. -Design actions and interventions relevant to patient’s culture and age. -Determines desired outcomes in coordination with patient and family in accordance with medical plan of care. -Fully implements patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies, procedures, professional guidelines, culture, and age of patient served.  -Explains procedures, treatments and processes to patient and family.  -Initiates action to alleviate patient’s stress and discomfort.  -Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.  -Conducts and documents ongoing  assessment and response to procedures and therapies using nursing process according to hospital policy, established standards, culture and age of patient served.  -Delegates task appropriately and oversee team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care.