Travel Nurse RN - ER/Trauma in Ulysses, KS
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**Job Title:** Registered Nurse (RN)**Job Specialty:** Emergency Room**Job Duration:** 13 weeks**Shift:** 12-hour night shift**Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week**Experience:** Minimum years of experience not specified**License:** State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact**Certifications:**- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)- NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) Certification**Must-Have:**- Associate Degree in Nursing is required. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is preferred.- Proficiency in English: Speak, Read, Write- EPIC software experience**Job Description:**- Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.- Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.- Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.- Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including IVs, wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.- Provide patient and family education through assessment of learning readiness, needs, and abilities.- Deliver relationship-based care, respecting cultural differences and prioritizing what is most important to individuals.- Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel in accordance with state nursing board and hospital policy.- Use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies efficiently to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.- Serve as a professional role model demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.- Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individual patient and unit needs.- Use standards of care, hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.- Work effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.- Precept or mentor new staff or nursing students as needed, seeking out learning opportunities for continuing education.- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.- Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines.- Demonstrate commitment through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.- Engage in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities to enhance knowledge of professional issues.