Travel Charge Nurse (RN) - OR - Operating Room
San Diego, CA
Talent4Health
3x12 hrs, Nights

RN OR - Charge nurse

• No on call requirement.
• Night Charge RN

Duties:

• Provides care to patient and family care that progresses them towards self-identified, holistic, and individualized goals.
• Performs nursing process through individualized assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, efficient care for patients.
• Promotes quality outcomes.
• Collaborates or seeks additional resources as needed in the management of complex, new/unusual, or other high-risk clinical situations
• Serves as patient and family advocate in ensuring excellent and satisfying care.

Sharp HealthCare Registry RN Discipline - Specific Responsibilities:

• The Registered Nurse is the direct and indirect provider of safe and therapeutic care for an assigned group of patients. Care is individualized and age specific using the nursing process.
• Assesses the need of patients and families
• Identifies and prioritizes overt and subtle patient and family needs and goals
• Documents assessment data.
• Develops a plan of action in concert with patient, family and other healthcare team members.
• Uses the nursing process to safely and therapeutically care for patients.
• Develops plan of care as evidenced by documentation (IPOC) and includes patient/family and members of the healthcare team.
• Implements and adapts the comprehensive, age/culturally appropriate plans using nursing interventions with patient/family.
• Implements plan of care. Seeks out resources when appropriate in new situations.
• Makes nursing decisions appropriate for plan of care in accordance with compliance.
• Evaluates patient’s and family’s progress towards goals and determines the need to alter goals and interventions.
• Evaluates patient/family response to care in relation to intended goals.
• Participates in patient care conferences.
• Documents patients’ response to care.
• Identifies and responds to patient/family educational needs through an individualized educational plan
• Assesses learning needs including barriers/readiness, develops plan and implements plan of care (IPOC & IPER) using appropriate resources.
• Evaluates patient and family learning through use of adult-learning theory and revises plan as appropriate. (E.g. documented in IPER, IPOC, discharge teaching, etc.)
• Recognizes barriers to communication with the patient and family and seeks interdisciplinary expertise to establish a therapeutic relationship.
• Analyzes socio-cultural variables to adapt nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
• Serves as a patient advocate through encouraging patient and family participation in decision-making and acting to uphold individual/family rights.
• Communicates patient and family care needs through documentation per department /entity guideline of care and policies and procedures.
• Delegates / assigns care to other healthcare team members which is within their scope of practice/competency to perform.
• Coordinates, integrates, and intervenes with other healthcare team to impact well being of patient /family.
• Communicates with other healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities.
• Follows through with identified actions/referrals. Identifies and communicates need for patient care conferences.
• Communicates and coordinates with other members of the health care team and ancillary staff to expedite patient progress and/or workflow.

Qualifications:

• Licensure: • CA RN license required
• Certifications: • CPR required
• Must have strong charge RN experience
• At least three year recent RN experience working in RN role. At least two year recent RN experience working in an specialty area.