RN Telemetry - PT Days

HonorHealth; Arizona; On-site; USD 72,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HonorHealth's Deer Valley Medical Center is seeking an RN for the Day shift in the Telemetry Unit-4P1 to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. You will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safety and compassionate support for patients and their families.

The role requires an Associate’s or Diploma in Nursing, with BSN preferred and mandatory Arizona RN licensure. Experience in med-surg or telemetry is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Associate’s or Diploma in Nursing required.
• Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• BSN within 60 months of hire OR 5+ years RN experience at time of hire.

Responsibilities

• Record patients' medical history and symptoms.
• Administer medications, therapies, and IVs as ordered.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate patient care plans.
• Educate patients and families on post-care needs and home management.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to coordinate care.
• Provide direction to LPNs and nursing aides as appropriate.

Education

Associate’s or Diploma in Nursing

Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN) preferred

BSN within 60 months of hire or 5 years RN experience

Job description

Position Details

• Primary City/State: Deer Valley Medical Center
• Category: Skilled Nursing
• Shift: Day
• Department: Telemetry Unit-4P1

Job Overview

Great care starts with great people. At HonorHealth, you’ll find something special. From humble beginnings in 1927 to one of Arizona’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems, our culture is built on warmth and neighborly kindness. Behind every smile is a highly skilled professional with deep expertise and an unwavering dedication to what matters most — caring for the health and well‑being of people and communities across the greater Phoenix area.

Responsibilities

The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served. The RN records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow‑up and rehabilitation. The RN establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan. The plan may include activities such as administering medication, careful checking of dosages and avoiding interactions; starting, maintaining, and discontinuing intravenous (IV) lines for fluid, medication, blood, and blood products; administering therapies and treatments; observing the patient and recording those observations; and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians. The RN teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explains post‑treatment and home care needs; diet, nutrition, and exercise programs; and self‑administration of medication and therapy. The RN provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegates when appropriate. The RN supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills. The RN precepts new hire staff and students. The RN assists the staff and students to seek and complete the tasks required to complete their competency skills. The RN continues to enhance their knowledge in the nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required. The RN may continue to improve the patients.

Essential Functions

• Collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs and involving the family.
• Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilize the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age‑appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
• Develop plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence based, providing for continuity of care, and family centered.
• Implement interventions in the plan of care. Initiate treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures.
• Provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social‑cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family‑centered approach to care delivery.
• Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes. Document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi‑systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost‑effective high‑quality healthcare.
• Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice. Enhance knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
• Collaborate with others to foster professional development at institutional, local, regional and state levels. Interact with and contribute to the professional development of peers and other health care providers through positive role‑modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs.
• Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care delivery.
• Collaborate with the patient, family and other health care providers in providing patient care.
• Develop and evaluate standards of care for patients that are evidence-based. Identify changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence‑based approach and facilitating the initiation, adoption, and adaptation to change.
• Use evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes. Design, create, and apply research by supporting the integration of research into practice.
• Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Education

• Associate’s or Diploma in Nursing. All staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements – PRIOR TO START.
• Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• All Diploma and ADN hires must complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience (including direct patient care or indirect RN roles) at the time of hire.

Experience

• Other – >10 months med‑surg or acute specialty setting required.
• 1 year RN experience for all float positions required.

Licenses & Certifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS) – certification in BLS training course and unit specific certification as required by specialty area DOP. Required.
• Registered Nurse (RN) – license state and/or compact state licensure as a registered nurse in the state of Arizona upon hire. Required.
• National certification for unit specific patient population preferred.