Registered Nurse (RN) - Outpatient

rogersbh; Town of Wausau (WI); On-site; USD 64,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New employee retention bonus

Job summary

Rogers Memorial Hospital is seeking an Registered Nurse to perform professional nursing activities for patient care, working to help patients achieve and maintain maximum physical, emotional or social function. The RN collaborates with the health team, seeks consults when warranted, and ensures patient information aligns with federal and state regulations.

The role emphasizes assessment, care planning, medication administration, patient advocacy, and education, with a focus on safety,

Responsibilities

• Complete initial assessments and documents as required.
• Collect, record, and analyze data for admission assessment, including patient strengths, cultural and ethnic factors, discharge needs, medical status, and medication history.
• Involve patient's support systems in assessment and documentation; observe interactions and obtain external data when appropriate.
• Act as an advocate for patients, explain rights, obtain signatures on consents, and protect privacy and confidentiality.
• Initiate and update treatment plans; participate in planning and modifying care; write clear treatment goals and review progress.
• Identify and document information from nursing interviews and observations; review labs; assess falls risk; address safety concerns.
• Deliver patient care with safe medication administration, accurate documentation, and awareness of adverse drug reactions and interactions; educate patients about medications.
• Monitor patient status, intervene to prevent deterioration, and employ de-escalation techniques when needed.

Job description

Schedule

• Full time - 40 hours/week
• Monday - Friday - No weekends / holidays / on-call required

New Employee Retention Bonus

• *$2,500.00 retention bonus available! (New Employee is defined as someone who has not been employed with Rogers for more than six months)

The registered nurse (RN, RN II, RN III) performs professional nursing activities in the care of patients so they may achieve or regain, and then maintain, maximum physical, emotional or social functions. Role functions are governed by the Nurse Practice Act, the Administrative Code (in the state of employment), as well as the professional standards for nursing practice, and the corresponding policies and procedures of Rogers Memorial Hospital (Rogers). The registered nurse seeks consultation with other members of the health team as the patient's condition and treatment goals warrant. He/She, in conjunction with the Patient Accounts department, provides patient information to ensure compliance with federal and state statutes.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Complete initial assessments and documents as required.

Collect, record, and analyze, within prescribed timeframe, pertinent data for admission assessment according to Hospital policy, including: Patient strengths and limitations that can be addressed in reaching health goals. Cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors that may impact on patient's course of treatment. Patient needs that are to be addressed at discharge. Medical/physical status. History of medication compliance, reactions, and current schedule; and Age-specific data regarding the patient's individual needs.

Involve patient's support systems (family, friends) in assessment and documentation. Observe and document the patient's interaction with family and friends as it is pertinent to the patient's treatment. Obtain assessment data from support systems, when appropriate, regarding the patient's history and individual needs.

Act as an advocate for patients. Explain patient's rights so they can understand and obtain appropriate signatures. Provide the patient with information and obtain their signature on necessary consents. Act as a patient advocate, use knowledge of patient rights and responsibilities, and protect patient's privacy and confidentiality. Assist in patient orientation process. Know and employ Hospital policies and procedures regarding unit safety, the necessity of gown/contraband search on admission, and carry out the process in a respectful manner. Remain sensitive to individual patient/family stressors upon admission while providing pertinent unit information.

Initiate and update treatment plan and documentation as required. Participate in planning and modifying the patient's plan of care. Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing patient's treatment plan and multi-disciplinary assessment for assigned patients. Participate in care conferences (staffings) and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan to others at the staffing. Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating it as indicated. Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem. Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated.

On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document information collected in nursing interview, observation, physical assessment and diagnostic data, and confer with other health care professionals, as appropriate. Review current lab data and follow-up with doctor. Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions, as indicated. Identify potential for self-abuse, suicidality and/or assaultive behavior. Develop age-appropriate interventions for the patient's plan of care. Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly.

Implement patient care. Demonstrate safe and correct medication administration by: Accuracy in medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route. Maintaining current knowledge of the medication's purpose and effects for each patient, as demonstrated by correct documentation of medication, as well as observations about responses to medication. Accurately transcribing and implementing physician medication orders. Maintaining a continual awareness of monitoring the expected and unexpected medication efforts including adverse drug reactions, drug/drug or drug/food interactions, or other unexpected consequences of the medication. Regularly conducting and documenting patient education about medications. Maintaining current knowledge about new pharmacologic products, including new medications or medications with new uses/therapeutic action.

Identify potential patient care problems, abrupt changes, or impending instability in the patient's condition, and exercise leadership to intervene appropriately and prevent adverse patient outcomes. Use appropriate de-escalation techniques: quiet room; locked seclusion; restraints. Re-evaluate safety