RN - MS Tele

Cynet HealthStaff; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Cynet HealthStaff is seeking a Registered Nurse for MS Tele. Position is a 13-week assignment on the third shift with 12-hour shifts. Requires an active RN license and BLS; no prior experience required.

Responsibilities include comprehensive assessments, care coordination, discharge planning, and inter-professional collaboration to ensure patient safety and high-quality care delivery. Strong communication and teamwork are essential to success in this role.

Qualifications

• Accepts responsibility for words, actions, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
• Maintains clear, respectful communication with teammates with active listening and body language.
• Collaborates with coworkers, respects differences, and contributes to team results.
• Greets internal and external customers professionally, explains what to expect and follows up on questions.
• Understands computer systems and applications or shows ability to be trained.
• Communicates and collaborates with the care team effectively.
• Assesses patient safety issues across ages and uses appropriate safety devices.

Responsibilities

• Performing and documenting a comprehensive assessment per RN scope and hospital policies.
• Coordinate care, plan interventions, and document patient status and needs.
• Educate patients and families; assist with discharge planning and coordination with Case Management.
• Lead and participate in inter-professional rounds, ensuring safety and quality of care.

Job description

RN - MS Tele

Profession: Nursing

Specialty: RN

Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: Third Shift

Hours per Shift: 12

Experience: No experience required

License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state

Certifications: BLS

Must-Have:

• Accepts responsibility for words, actions, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
• Practices effective, clear, and respectful communication (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language.
• Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly, while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team.
• Warmly and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns.
• Shows an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications or ability to be trained.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with other care team members.
• Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients.

Description:The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person.A caring environment focused on healing and wellness is created.Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research.Client and departmental policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines are followed.Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process.Critical thinking and creativity are utilized.Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.Direct patient care activities on the unit are coordinated, ensured, and provided.This includes the provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities is part of the role.Patient and family-centered education is provided.Care coordination and individualized treatment planning are employed as applicable.

Responsibilities include:Performing and documenting a comprehensive assessment in accordance with the RN's scope of practice and hospital policies and procedures.Considering the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level.Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints.Obtaining patient health information from family or others as necessary.Collecting objective and subjective data.Verifying initial admission assessments if obtained by other members of the healthcare team.Developing a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate.Designing relevant actions and interventions according to the patient’s culture and age.Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family in accordance with the medical plan of care.Fully implementing patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within the scope of practice.Explaining procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families.Initiating actions to alleviate patient stress and discomfort.Recognizing and responding to changes in patient condition appropriately.Conducting and documenting ongoing assessments and responses to procedures and therapies.Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in the performance of patient care activities.Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members.Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to comprehension levels.Facilitating patient discharge processes by executing discharge orders in a timely manner.Assuring the performance of discharge teaching and coordination of plans with Case Management and others as indicated.Providing input into patient/nurse assignments considering available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity.Actively participating in unit-based activities in support of organizational values and priorities.Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions.Assuring nursing excellence according to accepted standards, evidence-based practice, and current research.Actively participating in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures.Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care.