Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department - $1,966 per week

TalentBurst, Inc is seeking a travel nurse RN ED - Emergency Department for a travel nursing job in Texarkana, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements
•  Specialty: ED - Emergency Department
•  Discipline: RN
•  Start Date: ASAP
•  Duration: 13 weeks
•   36 hours per week
•  Shift: 12 hours, days
•  Employment Type: Travel Summary:

The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.

Responsibilities:

•   Meets expectations of the applicable One Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
•   Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
•   Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
•   Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
•   Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
•   Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

•   Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families
•   Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members
•   Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice
•   Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals
•   Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s)
•   Performs timely reassessment and documentation
•   Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process

•   Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow
•   Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process
•   Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy
Standard III. Unit Operations

•   Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift
•   Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies
•   Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
•   Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

•   Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes
•   Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities
•   Provides evidence-based nursing care
•   Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care
•   Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry
•   Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Clinical Policies and Standards

•   Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
•   Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance
•   Provides feedback for improvement of procedures
•   Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures
•   Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques
Health Information Documentation

•   Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation
•   Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records
•   Describes the flow of information between various stations or units
•   Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation
•   Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy
•   Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices
Medical Equipment

•   Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility
•   Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems
•   Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment
•   Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety
•   Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment
Medical Order Processing

•   Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions
•   Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders
•   Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting
•   Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders
•   Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation

•   Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care
•   Reviews patients charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions
•   Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff
•   Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned
•   Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others
Patient Safety

•   Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings
•   Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings
•   Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members
•   Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems
•   Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others
•   Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time

Job Requirements:

Education/Skills

•   Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred Experience

•   1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

•   BLS required
•   RN License in state of employment or compact
•   ACLS
•   PALS
•   TNCC

Position Requirements:

Education:

•   All newly hired experienced RNs must attend New Nurses Orientation within the first 30 days of hire.
•   New hires are precepted by a designated trained staff member and initial on-boarding requirements are validated through successful completion of the designated organizational entry competency validation and an Emergency Department-specific competency validation.
•   Yearly attendance at Annual Nursing Competency Day.
•   Completion of all annual competency verification requirements.
•   Crisis intervention training within 12 months of hire and maintain training annually thereafter.
•   Completion of an evidence-based triage curriculum at:
•   12 months of hire for new graduate or inexperienced RNs (less than 1 year of nursing experience)
•   3 months of hire for experienced RNs (more than 1 year of nursing experience) Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:

•   Current PALS certification at time of hire for experienced RNs or completion by the end of the clinical orientation period for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.
•   Current ACLS certification at time of hire for experienced RNs or completion by the end of the clinical orientation period for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.
•   Crisis intervention training within 12 months of hire and maintain training annually thereafter.
•   For trauma designated facilities, current TNCC certification within 6 weeks of hire for experienced RNs or completion within 18 months of hire for new graduate nurses and maintain certification thereafter.
Work Schedule:

7a to 7p

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