Pediatric UCC RN - Floating Care Specialist

Miami Neuroscience Institute Baptist Health South Florida; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Miami Neuroscience Institute Baptist Health South Florida in Miami seeks an experienced RN to join the Urgent Care Center Nursing Float Pool. The role emphasizes planning and delivering care using nursing processes, evidence-based practice, and family-centered approaches.

The RN will assess patients, communicate updates to physicians, document in the EMR within 24 hours, and float to multiple UCCs while maintaining safety and high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• RN Licensure in Florida or Multi-State eNLC (explain: maintain active and in good standing)
• American Heart Association BLS - maintain active and in good standing
• American Heart Association PALS required within 2 years of hire - maintain active and in good standing
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Institute maintain active and in good standing. Required within 180 days in hire into position.

Responsibilities

• Communicates patient's progress including critical findings & changes in condition with physician and/or disciplines involved in the care of the child. Performs and documents discharge instructions.
• Completes intakes to prepare patient to be seen by the medical team including vital signs, weight, height, symptoms, and history.
• Delegates nursing care based on knowledge of staff qualifications and competency.
• Performs intake assessment on patients with an emergency condition.
• Performs nursing treatments and follows physician team orders for medication administration, IV hydration, aerosol respiratory support, etc. on assigned patients.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements a transfer to a higher level of care for EMTALA transfers.
• Obtains parental immunization consent for every immunization administered per policy.
• Assists Physician in procedures (I&D, lacerations, sutures removal) as needed.
• Follows physician's orders, checks labs, tests, and administers patient medications when needed. Adheres to six rights of medication administration per Medication administration policy.
• Assesses IV sites after removal of IV to check for infiltration and redness.
• Ensures safe analgesics/narcotics administration, monitoring and reassessment as per hospital Pain Management policy and procedure.
• Asses electronic health record independently according to hospital policy and completes accurate and timely documentation within 24 hours in the patient's electronic health record.
• Communicates with patients and families to review plan of care and solicits input. Communicates any patient and family concerns to physician.
• Provides education and documents patient/family teachings on health related needs (i.e. disease, medications, treatments, pain, discharge, safety, nutrition, skin care, etc.).
• Promotes a safe 'error free' working environment by consistently performing thorough hand-offs (utilizing SBAR) and infection prevention measures.
• Ensures safe/effective/efficient care delivery with emphasis on absence of medication errors & blood borne infections, avoidance of falls from surface, ouch-free procedural pain, & reduction of pain.
• Completes chart reviews observe for Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance.
• Completes charges on all assigned patients.
• Demonstrates proper personal protective equipment (PPE) indication and use.
• Meets or exceeds unit standards in achieving a 95% CEI; completes documentation in a timely manner; accountable to regulatory and requirements of the DNV, CMS, DOH, & ACHA.
• Provides continuous supervision, observation of behavioral health patients, and adheres to non-violent crisis intervention strategies (CPI).

Skills

RN Licensure Florida or eNLC

AHA BLS

AHA PALS

CPI

BSN or enrolled

Pediatrics

EMR

Education

BSN degree or currently enrolled in BSN

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Miami Neuroscience Institute Baptist Health South Florida in Miami seeks an experienced RN to join the Urgent Care Center Nursing Float Pool. The role emphasizes planning and delivering care using nursing processes, evidence-based practice, and family-centered approaches.

The RN will assess patients, communicate updates to physicians, document in the EMR within 24 hours, and float to multiple UCCs while maintaining safety and high-quality patient care.