Registered Nurse – Endoscopy

Job Description

Job Summary:

• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
• Reports and is accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director.
• Responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Essential Duties:

• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population with assistance.
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.

Evaluation of Care:

• Identifies expected patient outcomes.
• Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
• Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.

Implementation:

• Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects of care.
• Performs bedside point-of-care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivery of care.
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.

Leadership:

• With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
• Gives feedback to co-workers.
• Promotes a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment for all.

Patient Assessment:

• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education, and safety needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.

Planning:

• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.

Research:

• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Required Skills & Experience:

• One (1) year of nursing experience.

Required Education:

• Nursing Diploma OR
• ADN or ASN from an accredited school of Nursing

Preferred Education:

• BSN or MSN from an accredited school of Nursing

Required Certifications & Licensure:

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification (AHA or ARC)

Certifications & Licenses:

• BLS – AHA
• Registered Nurse License