Registered Nurse (Prn)

We are looking to hire a part-time RN for our out patient surgery center that consistently applies and utilizes the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients. The RN collaborates with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes. Communicates and utilizes interpersonal skills effectively and role models confidence and professionalism within nursing by active engagement in unit and organizational activities. Demonstrates team work, adaptability, and is a resource person to the patient care team. As stated in the beginning, the position is part-time, with potential full-time hire in the future. Our days of operation are Monday thru Friday and we are needing the RN every Thursday but may be asked to work on other days if needed.

Essential Job Functions:

Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process, to include:

1. Assessment: Conducts ongoing focused physical, psychosocial, and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.

2. Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn, and incorporates family into the plan of care.

3. Implementation: Prioritizes and implements an efficient nursing plan of care.

4. Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluations, recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed, and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care. 5. Collaborates with patient care team members on patient care plan, incorporating consistent use of hand-off communication and SBAR communication methods.

6. Prioritizes tasks and adjusts priorities when necessary. Maintains an orderly, efficient, and timely flow of patients. Recognizes and reports errors or unusual occurrences, and initiates corrective action when appropriate.

7. Makes accurate, complete, and timely entries into the patient medical record addressing all steps of the nursing process. Actively communicates with members of the healthcare team, patient, and patient family.

8. Maintains current nursing knowledge to assure a safe working environment.

Qualifications

EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED:

• Required: Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.

EXPERIENCE:

• A minimum of six (6) months clinical experience as a licensed RN is preferred but not required.
• Bilingual in Spanish (Fluent) is very preferred

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Application Question(s):

• Are you available to work Thursdays only and every other friday.

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• Nursing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Acute Care: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Required)
• RN (Required)

Work Location: In person