Travel Nurse RN - Med/Surg - $2,024 per week in Colorado Springs, CO
Cynet Health
Colorado Springs, CO
United States
Job Description
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: RN
Specialty: Medical / Surgical
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 12h day shift
Hours per Shift: 12 hours
Experience: One year preferred
License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact
Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification
Must-Have: Associate Degree in Nursing required; Bachelor Degree in Nursing preferred
Description:
Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family.
Identifies and meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
Promotes the optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient through the use of the nursing process.
Acts in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
Demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
Assesses patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
Evaluates patients’ responses and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Develops and implements patient plans of care and observes outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrates competency in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
Promotes, advocates, and collaborates to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
Provides patient and family education through the assessment of patient and family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
Conducts teaching and evaluates the effectiveness of teaching.
Recognizes the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Delivers relationship-based care where the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engages them in all aspects of care.
Provides care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
Delegates to non-RN personnel in accordance with the State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
Serves as a professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
Manages resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
Uses standards of care, hospital policies and procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
Functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Precepts and mentors new staff or nursing students as needed.
Seeks out learning opportunities and continuing education.
Pursues experiences that reflect current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice.
Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
Evaluates one’s own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
Takes action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.