Registered Nurse, Rn, Urogynecology Office

Responsibilities

The Registered Nurse is accountable for assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating care for patients served and collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The Registered Nurse practices professional nursing by utilizing the nursing process and adheres to standards set forth in the Nurse Practice Act of Pennsylvania and Grand View Health policies and procedures.
Essential Functions:

• Assesses and monitors the overall needs of patients and family. Ensures that required documentation is performed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Develops and utilizes verbal communication skills to obtain and/or provide information regarding the adolescent, adult and geriatric patient/significant other.
• Communicates effectively with members of the healthcare team.
• Implements accepted standards of documentation on patient electronic medical records and other hospital forms to ensure that information affecting a patient, significant other or member of the healthcare team is properly recorded.
• Accepts assignments in a positive and professional manner.
• Assertively communicates concerns, issues and information through appropriate channels.
• Identifies continuing education needs and seeks appropriate educational opportunities to enhance professional development.
• Collects subjective and/or objective data systematically and routinely by using physical assessment skills to identify and prioritize the patient's actual and/or potential problems or needs.
• Interprets and correlates diagnostic data with physical findings on an ongoing basis in order to assess the patient and plan appropriate intervention.
• Establishes goals that are mutually acceptable with the patient and/or significant other in order to set achievable outcomes.
• Establishes a teaching plan based on identified educational needs of the patient and significant other.
• Coordinates plan of care and collaborates with other members of the healthcare team in order to implement care.
• Implements physician's order and nursing plan of care according to established standards.
• Administers medications safely according to established policies and procedures.
• Teaches patient and/or significant other in order to meet identified needs, and documents progress and response to teaching.
• Organizes and establishes priorities for workload in order to complete assignment within their shift.
• Evaluates patient response to nursing intervention in order to revise/update the plan of care.
• Evaluates patient and significant other/family's response to education, and revises teaching plan as needed.
• Acts as patient advocate to assure that patient needs are met.
• Maintains patient confidentiality to ensure patients' rights to privacy.
• Ensures that care delivered meets established standards of care and follows evidence-based practice.