Travel Nurse RN - Med/Surg - $2,302 per week in Dodge City, KS
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Job Title: Registered Nurse Job Specialty: Medical/Surgical Job Duration: 13 weeks Shift: 12-hour day shift Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week Experience: One year experience preferred License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact required Certifications: - American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification Must-Have: - Critical Care - Patient Care - EPIC proficiency Job Description: - Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data. - Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes. - Develop and implement patient plans of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. - Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs, incision/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 by assessing learning readiness, needs, and ability, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. - Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the individual's preferences, values, and needs. - Deliver relationship-based care with respect for cultural differences and diversity. - Delegate to non-RN personnel following State Board of Nursing and hospital policy. - Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective care. - Serve as a professional role model by demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes. - Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs. - Use care standards, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice. - Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making. - Precept/mentor new staff or nursing students as needed. - Seek out learning opportunities and continuing education to maintain skills and competence. - Maintain professional records demonstrating competency and lifelong learning. - Evaluate integrity and nursing practice relative to professional standards, statutes, rules, and regulations. - Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process. - Participate in hospital and unit-based meetings. - Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data. - Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, experiences, and safe care delivery. - Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities. - Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.