Staff RN Job Description
Staff RN
provides competent, compassionate nursing care based on scientific principles and the use of nursing process and a primary nursing model.
Staff RN Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective staff RN job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included staff RN job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Accepts responsibility and accountability for own actions with appropriate follow through
Understands and adheres to Merrimack Valley Health Care's compliance standards and policies as they appear in CCHCS' Corporate Compliance Program, Code of Conduct and Business Ethics
Models behavior consistent with CCHCS's Corporate Compliance Program, Code of Conduct and Business Ethics
Is open, honest and trustworthy
Appropriately prioritizes patient care
Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, , documents assessment and patients' response to medication
Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors
Communicates with members of the health care team as appropriate to the patient's clinical condition
Develops and modifies an effective, comprehensive, and individualized plan of care for assigned patients, utilizing standards of care developed by Morton Hospital
Applies knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served infant pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
Staff RN Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Staff RN
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, BCLS, CPR, AHA, ACLS, PALS, IV
Education for Staff RN
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the staff RN job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Education, Oncology, Radiology, Graduate School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Science, Associates, Graduate, Teaching
Skills for Staff RN
Desired skills for staff RN include:
Principles and skills needed for practical nursing to provide patient care and treatment
Nursing of the nursing care delivery model and its application
Infection control principles and practices
Nursing procedures
RN scope of practice
Applies safety principles as identified within the institution
Moderate analgesia and reversal agents
Legal issues
Medications specific to the management of the adult patient requiring procedural sedation
Carney Hospital restraint policy
Desired experience for staff RN includes:
Prior ASU experience preferred
ACLS required within three months of hire
Must have excellent interpersonal skills and be a strong team player
Will cross train to other perioperative departments
Current Maine RN license or eligible to obtain current Maine RN license
Must be organized, a team player, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
Staff RN Examples
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Staff RN Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a staff RN. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff RN
- Demonstrate continued competence in assessing, treating, and caring for individuals based on age-specific criteria
- Provide continuous patient monitoring, care, and assistance to physician and anesthesia providers
- Interact with patients, families, teammates, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team to ensure a positive and professional facility environment
- Documents initial and ongoing patient assessment in a complete, concise, and timely manner according to policy and procedure of MHMC
- Develops and modifies and effective, comprehensive, and individualized plan of care including discharge planning for assigned patients, utilizing standards of care developed by MHMC
- Integrates, delegates, and coordinates patient care using interdisciplinary approach
- Evaluates patient responses to interventions according to established policy and procedure of MHMC
- Administers medication and perform treatments, utilizing principles of aseptic technique to assigned patient according to the established policy and procedure of MHMC
- Maintains current knowledge of nursing practice by attending continuing education, serving on hospital committees and/or completing institutional and unit-specific competencies
- Evaluates patient’s response to care and initiates independent and/or collaborative changes where appropriate
Qualifications for staff RN
- Minimum of 2 years of PACU/ICU/ER/CCU experience required
- PALS or ENPC, BLS, ACLS, and TNCC (or willing to train within one year)
- Checks schedules and organizes patient flow
- Attends scheduled staff meetings, in service education opportunities and participates in continuing education programs
- Respects and protects the patient’s rights to confidentiality and privacy and discloses information only for the professional purposes which are in the patient’s best interests with full consideration of their legal rights
- Proficient nursing skills applicable to this position
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff RN
- Identifies and anticipates needs of patient/family as they move through the hospitalization process
- Identifies and/or assumes activities relative to the developmental needs of the unit and the nursing department
- Demonstrates dependability/flexibility in meeting scheduling needs of the unit and Hospital
- Seeks opportunities to participate in decision making regarding standards, policies, practice and/or education
- Demonstrates knowledge and principles of Performance Improvement works as a team member to achieve Performance Improvement
- Participates in a minimum of 50% of staff meetings
- Assesses the patient's condition and nursing needs, determines outcomes and prescribes appropriate nursing actions to meet those outcomes and the physical, psychological, social and rehabilitative needs of the patient including discharge planning
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to meet the outcome needs of the individual patient
- Reports pertinent observations and reactions regarding patient to the appropriate person (i.e., physicians, director, nurse manager, charge nurse and/or nursing supervisor) and records those observations accurately and concisely
- Assigns nursing care to team members in accordance with patient needs and the personnel's capabilities and qualifications and assigns other duties as needed
Qualifications for staff RN
- Must be able to work successfully with a diverse group of faculty, staff and members of the public
- Current American Heart Association Advanced Course in Life Support (ACLS) with course completion card available for review
- Equivalent of 3 years full-time equivalent of critical care experience
- ED nursing experience preferred
- SN I = Less than 6 months, SN II = Minimum of 6 months
- Depending on the particular specialty, ACLS and or NRP and or PALS may also be required for this position
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff RN
- Educates patients in pain management and its impact on patient outcome
- A Registered Nurse who has taken a basic arrhythmia class and completed the competency will be expected to do telemetry monitoring in the ICU, if floated there
- Performs telemetry monitoring, as required.v
- Enters correct charges for all medications
- Enters correct medication, including description, strength, route, expiration date, and start/stop dates
- Enters mg/kg dosing for peds/neonates
- Corrects all orders which are entered in error or may be misunderstood
- Posts debits/credits accurately
- Follows all ATS conversions based on substitutions approved by P&T
- Maintains order entry error rate <2%
Qualifications for staff RN
- RN, current BLS, ACLS, BSN
- RN, current BLS, ACLS, BSN or enrolled in BSN
- State of Maine RN Licensure, required
- Must be a team player, have strong communication skills and be able to multi-task
- Strongly prefer, at least, one year of nursing experience
- RN licensing
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff RN
- Clarifies all TPN orders prior to order entry
- Performs all calculations and worksheets for chemotherapy
- Completes all documentation and double checks
- Takes required protective measures and ensures that technicians take all required protective measures
- Disposes of chemotherapy waste properly
- Prepares and dispenses drug products throughout the hospital (or directly supervises qualified pharmacy technician in these functions)
- Insures the appropriateness of drug dose and frequency for each medication ordered before dispensing
- Assess and diagnoses patient and family problems in order to provide quality care to assigned patients
- Develops discusses and communicates a realistic problem list (plan of care) for each patient, in collaboration with each patient/family/significant other in order to address all identified needs/or in accordance with specific unit standards
- Develops patient/family/significant other teaching and discharge plans that are driven by the needs of patient/family
Qualifications for staff RN
- Current and active CA RN license Current BLS certification Unit specific certifications and qualifications ACLS
- Minimum of 2 years of endoscopy experience required
- Float between Dorchester and Quincy campus as needed
- AHA BLS, ACLS and PALS required
- AHA BLS and ACLS certification required
- RN and BSN or enrolled in a BSN program
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff RN
- Travels to patients’ homes and/or other facilities with varying environments (e.g., elevated buildings, walk-ups, care facilities, single/multiple family homes, presence of pets, ) using approved transportation options to deliver direct care to the patient
- Follows work procedures in relation to established workflows
- Assumes responsibility for personal professional growth through attendance at in-services, training, continued formal education and select journal readership
- Performs other related duties and participates in special project, as assigned
- Interventional-PALS and ACLS
- Outpatient Chemo-Chemo certification
Qualifications for staff RN
- AHA BLS & ACLS certification required
- ICU-ACLS
- Emergency Department-PALS and ACLS
- Labor and Delivery-NRP
- Operating Room - ACLS
- PACU-ACLS, PALS