The Registered Nurse (RN) provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization, while complying with laws and regulations in maintaining patient information. This position leads the coordination of care for patients by applying effective decision making skills based on patient/family healthcare needs and priorities.
 

II.    ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families promoting decision making based on the assessment of patient medical histories, symptoms, examinations, diagnosis, conditions and treatments.
• Communicate and collaborate concisely and continuously among clinical team, including physicians, both verbally and in documentation focusing on patients identified problems and needs by implementing and monitoring patient care plans, as well as recording and communicating patient conditions as appropriate, to optimize their health outcomes.
• Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team. 
• Competently applies collaborative teamwork and leadership as a member of an inter-professional team to coordinate patient centered care for quality patient and unit outcomes of care processes by: Utilizing information, resources and technology
• Provide Patient Centered Care Nursing processes including Patient/Family, Evidence Based Practices (EBP), safety and process improvement 
• Exemplifies professionalism: applies lifelong learning; contributes to the science of nursing; participates in governance; shares knowledge to expand the scale and scope of best practices with others; builds the ethical, moral and regulatory base for best practices and processes of patient and unit care. 
• Performs nursing care according to the population served on the unit as referenced in the Administrative, Scope of Services Policy. 
• Performs other duties as assigned in line with current basic nursing scope.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this position

Emergency Specific:

• Utilize specialized nursing knowledge, the highly trained Critical Care Registered Nurse, Emergency Department triages the emergency, evaluates patients’ vital signs and/or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
• Rapidly assess and implement stabilization protocols, including lifesaving interventions, such as rapid sequence intubation, advanced cardiac life support, or advanced pediatric life support.
• Monitor patients for indications of sepsis or cardiogenic shock and institute appropriate interventions.
• Set up and monitor medical equipment/devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines.
• Assist with conducting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, rescue breathing, or bag-valve-mask ventilation.
• Assist with performing tracheotomies and intubations
• Handle protocol for sedating patients; shock protocol when organ dysfunction occurs and administering inotropes if in cardiogenic shock

II. JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in nursing or directly related field for RN -2 level
• Current Basic life Support for Healthcare Providers, however based on department, certification in ACLS and PALS then the BLS requirement is waived.
• Current Eligibility for Kansas RN license or Multi-State (Compact) License.

Preferred: 

• ACLS within 6 months of hire (ED, ICU/2East or other units)