Per Diem RN Job Description
Per Diem RN Duties & Responsibilities
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Per Diem RN Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Per Diem RN
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Education for Per Diem RN
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Employers hiring for the per diem RN job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, School of Nursing, Graduate, Education, Science, Associates, Patient Care, Medical, Technical, English
Skills for Per Diem RN
Desired skills for per diem RN include:
Desired experience for per diem RN includes:
Per Diem RN Examples
Per Diem RN Job Description
- Obtains an update on each elder from the elder assistant each shift
- Document clinical assessments, ensuring that they are elder specific, considering the primary diagnosis and specific risks
- Asses for unresolved/untreated pain in each elder
- Identify any clinical teaching needs of the elder assistants, elder or family
- Administers medications and treatments according to Massachusetts Nursing Practice
- Collaborates on the data gathering of the MDS+
- Collaborates with the elder assistant to organize the care-planning meeting
- Monitors care plan compliance
- Communicate a sense of caring, concern, and dignity for elders
- Promotes a productive atmosphere, facilitates teamwork and treats fellow employees, residents and families with respect and consideration, is helpful, cooperative and courteous
- Critical Care, E.R, or Trauma experience is strongly preferred
- Registered Nurse license in State of PA (Active and in Good Standing)
- Occupational Health or Emergency Room experience
- Mechanical ventilator and vasoactive drip management
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
- One (1) year experience as an RN in a Critical Care area, ICU/CCU, Cath Lab, ED, Radiology
Per Diem RN Job Description
- Assisting in prepping patients for examinations or procedures, assisting with procedures, relaying instructions from the physician to a patient or authorized person, and collecting patient data
- Administrating medications specifically directed by the physician and performing accurate vital sign measurements and documentation
- Providing leadership to support staff
- Educates patient/resident and family/responsible party regarding individual care and needs, safety issues
- Demonstrates /identifies via appropriate clinical judgement and critical thinking any emergency situations and institutes corrective actions in a calm and efficient manner
- Demonstrates and has through knowledge and awareness of appropriate medications use following the departments policy on medication administration and takes a multidisciplinary approach to ensure the completeness of the post-anesthesia forms and maintaining communication of any critical assessment to the post-op patient with surgical staff as defined by surgical service policy
- Completes and documents relevant data such as the post-op assessment, medication reconciliation, reassessment and post pain management & post care discharge
- Demonstrates the planning and readiness of PACU bays attaining the equipment, supplies, needed for the PACU process and collaborates with the surgical team of any barriers to surgery to enhance the post-surgical patient outcomes
- Identifies unique patient considerations/precautions that require surgical procedure specific positioning and providing physiological alignment and decreasing the risk for pressure ulcers doing a skin assessment post procedure
- Demonstrates through knowledge of admitting the immediate post-op patient, implementation/final verification, confirming allergies, obtaining surgical SBAR report from the OR RN, any post-op X-rays, blood admin., documentation compliance with departmental, local, state requirements of the post-surgical patient and ASPAN standards
- Antepartum, Intrapartum, Postpartum, Post-gynecological and Level 1 Newborn Care
- Circulate for surgical procedures performed on the Maternal Child Unit
- Medical Screening Exam Competency and Triage Obstetrical Patients (within 6 months of hire for experienced nurses (Prior nursing experience- a minimum of one (1) year of independent practice in Labor & Delivery experience) Newborn stabilization and resuscitation (baby catcher)
- EFM - External Fetal Monitoring course within one (1) year of hire
- CT NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- CT CPRACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support- AHA- within six (6) months of hire
Per Diem RN Job Description
- Trained and currently certified in basic CPR
- Maintains confidentiality of patients and obtains releases when necessary
- Effectively communicates with Director, CCH Management, other OHS staff and other Hospital departments
- Performs other related duties as deemed necessary by the Director of Occupational Health Services
- Interviews and identifies obvious and potential patient problems
- Initiates, as appropriate, additional specific assessment forms, skin integrity form, patient at risk for falls
- Identifies goals and expected outcomes in patient care collaborating with patient and/or patient representative
- Makes recommendations for changes in practice based on integration of evidence nursing and research findings
- Assessing, prioritizing, monitoring, and managing overall care for patients that are critically injured or ill , Cardiac arrest, sepsis, diabetic coma
- Care for and manage pediatric patients
- Current licensure as an RN in the state of Massachusetts
- Minimum 2 years critical care experience
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
- Occupational Health/Employee Health/Urgent Care/Emergency Medicine
- One (1) year experience as an RN in an Emergency Department or successful completion of applicable clinical and didactic SRDH specialty training course(s) or program
- CT CPRACLS - Advanced Life Support - AHA
Per Diem RN Job Description
- Evaluate patient data throughout the assessment process to identify inconsistencies and adherence to evidence-based guidelines
- Record patient data in medical records
- Create and document comprehensive individual plan of care, including specific, measurable goals
- Communicate plan of care to care team, patients, and families
- Implement patient plan of care including protocols and direct orders
- Provide patient centered care that addresses the needs of diverse populations across the life span
- Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers by adhering to treatment policies, procedures and evidence-based practice guidelines
- Apply understanding of individual disease processes to patient care
- Advocate for patients for services, benefits, or treatment needed as appropriate
- Connect patient to resources within benefits, community, to help patients become more independent
- Registered Nurse License in State of Arizona (Active and in Good Standing)
- Medical terminology and familiarity with CPT and ICD-9 coding procedures and reference tools, and pharmacology appropriate to the Registered Nurse scope of practice required
- One (1) year of experience in an outpatient setting as a Registered Nurse preferred
- Familiarity with an electronic practice management system preferred
- Graduate of an approved school of professional nursing with an active RN license
- First scrub experienced preferred
Per Diem RN Job Description
- Act as a coach and provide guidance for all clinical needs of the elders living in the home
- Perform assessments on elders that may have had a fall, a decline in condition or suicidal comments
- Work as a part of a team with the LPNs and C.N.As to insure all tasks are completed as needed
- Coordinates patients on clinical protocols under the direction of the attending physician
- Plans and coordinates all diagnostic testing, patient assessment, treatments and follow-up according to protocol guidelines
- Interacts with patients and families to ensure study compliance, obtain information and assesses the need for psychosocial support
- Functions as clinical resource and liaison to all members of health care team
- Develops and or presents educational programs for patients, significant other, and staff related to specific program or departmental needs
- Documents data pertaining to protocol in medical record
- Develops and participates in performance improvement activities to evaluate the program's effectiveness in meeting patient care and departmental needs
- Minimum 2 years ICU/Critical Care Experience Required
- 1 or more years recent acute care experience
- Advanced chemotherapy training
- Knowledge and skill regarding infusions and accessing ports
- Ability to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety and related criteria, appropriate to patient served in service area (newborn to geriatric)
- Clinical knowledge and analytic ability necessary to formulate effective nursing care plans and interventions