Nurse Clinical/UKHC/Chandler ED/ Weekend Plan

UK HealthCare; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The UK HealthCare Ltd emergency department seeks experienced nurses to deliver total, continuous, patient-centered care across triage, express care, acute and trauma areas. Responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing, teaching and evaluating care plans, and ensuring patient satisfaction.

You will train and delegate to Nursing Care Technicians and adhere to university, state and federal regulations.

Qualifications

• Assessing, documenting, planning, implementing, teaching, developing and evaluating a comprehensive nursing plan of care.
• Delivering direct patient care.
• Ensuring patient satisfaction.
• Training and delegating duties for Nursing Care Technicians (Nursing Assistants).
• Adhering to University policies and procedures as well as federal, state and local regulations.
• Collaborative efforts among nursing staff and physicians to improve patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide total, comprehensive, continuous and patient-centered nursing care to ED patients across multiple areas.
• Utilize nursing process in coordination with physicians to coordinate care and communicate treatment plans.

Job description

The Chandler Emergency Department consists of 5 different areas where care is provided: triage where the patient is seen to determine how to prioritize their care needs, chair centric and express care intended for low acuity patients that can be seen and discharged within 60 minutes, these patients usually have minor complaints like sore throat, an isolated extremity injury, or simple laceration. The acute care area is a 16-bed area where common emergency complaints like abdominal pain, stable chest pain, and mild to moderate shortness of air receive care. Critical care has 8 beds and patients in this area range from trauma patients who have been resuscitated in the trauma area and need continuing care to patients in need of intensive care unit treatment such as septic patients or those receiving vasoactive infusions. The UK Level I Trauma Center has 8 beds capable of caring for the most complex injured patients.
The primary responsibilities for this position consist of providing total, comprehensive, continuous and patient centered care which includes: assessing, documenting, planning, implementing, teaching, developing, and evaluating a comprehensive nursing plan of care; delivering direct patient care; ensuring patient satisfaction; training and delegating duties for Nursing Care Technicians (Nursing Assistant); and adhering to University policies and procedures as well as federal, state and local regulations. Furthermore, this environment supports collaborative efforts among the nursing staff and the team of physicians to increase communication and enhance expected patient outcomes. This includes utilization of the nursing process in conjunction with a comprehensive patient-centered plan of care, ensuring patient satisfaction.