Casual Registered Nurse - Dynamic Patient Care & Team Impact

Independence Health System Careers; Latrobe (Westmoreland County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Independence Health System in Latrobe, PA seeks a registered nurse to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the care for a designated group of patients. The RN coordinates, directs and actively participates as an effective member of the interdisciplinary health care team.

You will contribute to the efficient operation of the unit, promote positive patient outcomes, and continuously maintain professional knowledge through workshops and publications while adhering to regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, review professional publications, establish personal networks, and participate in professional societies.
• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs using Nurse Knowledge Exchange techniques.
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients, and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promote patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient/family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; calling

Job description

Independence Health System in Latrobe, PA seeks a registered nurse to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the care for a designated group of patients. The RN coordinates, directs and actively participates as an effective member of the interdisciplinary health care team.

You will contribute to the efficient operation of the unit, promote positive patient outcomes, and continuously maintain professional knowledge through workshops and publications while adhering to regulatory standards.