Registered Nurse RN Job, Per Diem Days, Endocrinology

Day Kimball Healthcare is hiring for a Registered Nurse for the Per Diem Day Shift Endocrinology job in Putnam, CT. Job Summary:
Is responsible for diagnosing responses to actual or potential health problems and for providing basic emergent, supportive, and restorative care through use of the nursing process. Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned responsibility.

Essential Responsibilities:

• According to age and developmental level of the patient, systematically assesses the patient's physical, psychosocial, emotional, cultural, spiritual and discharge needs.
• Utilizes effective oral and written communication skills to include completeness and accuracy of documentation.
• Demonstrates accurate technical skill and operational knowledge of patient care equipment and procedure.
• Evaluates the plan of care and reformulates the goals as necessary.
• Develops and implements a plan of care for each patient.
• Recognizes unsafe and life-threatening situations and intervenes appropriately.

• Meets the physical demands of the position.
• Demonstrates ability to cope with and function under stress.
• Meets skill certification requirements for designated units.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required.
• BSN preferred.
• Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Connecticut required.
• Current AHA Healthcare Provider CPR certification or equivalent within 3 months of hire required.

• According to age and developmental level of the patient, systematically assesses the patient's physical and psychosocial needs for the purpose of establishing a nursing diagnosis. Includes discharge needs in the initial assessment.
• Completes assessments utilizing basic interview and observational skills, and adds new information obtained on an ongoing basis.
• Determines the presence, nature and priority of immediate patient problems.
• Observes changes in physiological and emotional status and alters plan of care appropriately.
• Re-assesses each assigned patient with appropriate frequency based on his/her condition.
• Assesses and identifies appropriate learning needs according to age, developmental level, readiness and ability of the patient and family/significant other utilizing appropriate resources.
• Identifies factors from the patient's history that may influence his ability to communicate and determines barriers to communication.

• Develops, initiates and updates a plan of care for each assigned patient.
• Incorporates physician's orders and medical regimen into the plan of care.
• Establishes realistic and measurable goals.
• Includes patient and family/significant other in the planning process.
• Initiates discharge planning in collaboration with the patient, family/ significant other and appropriate members of the health care team.

• Initiates appropriate nursing actions to provide for the basic biophysical, dietary, psychosocial, emotional, language, cultural and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Provides patient and family/significant other teaching in preparation for discharge.
• Supervises specific nursing actions delegated to other members of the health care team, considering the competence and limitations of the members of the health care team.
• Intervenes appropriately in an emergency.

• Demonstrates knowledge and application of principles of the following: fire safety, infection control, hazardous materials communication program, Standard Precautions, medication administration, patient care equipment, and general safety.
• Identifies and provides for safety measures based on the needs, age and developmental level of each assigned patient, initiates corrective action as needed, documenting patient's response.
• Must be trained and subsequently show competence in responding to events where a patient is out of control or exhibiting inappropriate behavior.

• Evaluates plan of care, identifying progress or lack of progress toward goals. Revises and updates NCP as patient needs change.
• Includes the patient, his/her family and/or significant others, nursing staff and other health team members in the evaluation process.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate, collaborate and maintain interpersonal relationships with patients, families and members of the interdisciplinary health care team in providing care.
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality in a professional manner.
• Demonstrates competency in utilizing resources to accommodate cultural needs of patients and customers such as dietary, religious and language needs.
• Participates in performance improvement activities.
• Able to identify organizational and departmental structure, i. e. , chain of Command, roles, function, and resources within the Nursing Department and DKH.
• Demonstrates ability to incorporate consideration of acuity, skill mix, safety, needs of the unit and environment when making outpatient care assignments.
• Assesses the effectiveness of the patient care assignment on an ongoing basis and makes revisions in the assignment as indicated.
• Appropriately classifies patients using the Nursing Department classification system.
• Establishes priorities and manages assignments in an efficient and timely manner.

• Clinically competent RN who demonstrates expertise in one or more of the following areas: (SDA, ODS, IV Therapy or Endoscopy).
• Clinically competent RN who demonstrates expertise in the perioperative field.
• Performs circulating and/or scrub duties.
• Demonstrates understanding and practice of aseptic technique.
• Must have a mechanical ability to deal with a large number of machines and special equipment in the department, such as:
  • Electrocautery units Autoclaves
  • Tourniquets Positioning equipment
  • Instrumentation of each service Video equipment
  • Perioperative suite in total Ligasure

• The following educational requirements are exempt for per diem ACU RNs:
  • R025 ACLS
  • R098 Moderate Sedation
  • R135 Endostat Electrosurgical Generator
  • R141 Autologous Blood Donation