RN - MedSurg/Telemetry
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Wayne UNC Health Care

Registered Nurse - 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. Responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

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.
• Use effective communication systems and promote cost-effective care.
• Provide feedback to co-workers and promote a safe, clean, and secure environment.
• Recognize and synthesize complex assessment data to determine care priorities.
• 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 patient care planning.
• Prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Engage in research by reading relevant journals and contributing ideas for practice improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in North Carolina
• Minimum 2 years of Stepdown nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) certification
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) from an accredited school of nursing