RN Rapid Response ICU Cardiology Full Time Days
Employment Type : Full-Time
Description
RN Rapid Response AdventHealth Ocala
Location Address: 1500 SW 1st Ave Ocala, Florida 34471
Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Ocala
- Up to $35K sign on bonus and relocation incentives
- Horse Capital of the World
- Driving distance to Gainesville, St. Augustine, Orlando, Tampa, Sarasota
- Part of the community since 1898, providing healthcare to Marion County for over 120 years
- Florida Hospital Ocala offers a broad spectrum of services, with programs that are nationally recognized and accredited
- Spectacular springs throughout the county
Work Hours/Shift:
Full Time / Days
You Will Be Responsible For:
SERVICE:
- Communicates with courtesy when interacting with internal or external customers-in person or on the telephone.
- Demonstrates respect for co-workers and develops positive working relationship with other departments.
- Participates in hourly rounding for outcomes using the AIDET technique.
- Incorporates Caring Model behaviors and culturally competent care into daily practice.
- Demonstrates organizational commitment standards and values.
- Monitors staff compliance with customer service behaviors and reinforces hospital goals for service management.
PEOPLE:
- Adheres to organizational standards for dress and professional appearance.
- Demonstrates collaboration and teamwork in managing patient flow-i.e. promotes timely patient placement by following hospital policy for patient admission, discharge and transfer.
- Participates in peer interviewing and peer review process.
- Communicates changes, new procedures, and processes for the nursing division, service line, and team to staff.
- Participates in monthly staff meeting for assigned unit.
- Provides required documentation for personnel file in a timely manner.
- Utilizes time effectively and accomplishes duties in necessary timeframe with minimal supervision.
- Assists staff in the delivery of patient care: assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Demonstrates knowledge of hospital, division, and unit Standards of Care and Practice by serving as a resource person to nurses and physicians during assigned shift.
- Mentors and coaches team members to successfully manage patient needs.
- Assists staff in effective time utilization.
FINANCE:
- Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the delivery of nursing services.
- Prepares daily shift assignments, which distributes personnel equitably and appropriately to match the needs of patients with skill of nursing staff.
- Adheres to staffing matrix and operational budgetary benchmarks.
OUTCOMES:
- Responds and assesses Patient needs for Rapid Response calls.
- Responds to Code Blue.
- Assures that reportable events occurring within the department are properly reported to Risk Management within the time required by law.
- Assists Risk Management Department in identifying risks, analyzing cause/effects of incidents and in the investigation of incidents as may be required for legal purposes.
- Works with Risk Management Department in developing corrective action plans addressing trends or categories or risks/incidents.
- Implements actions, as appropriate, recommended by Performance Improvement activities and hospital-wide Quality Improvement Council (QIC).
- Ensures compliance with core measure/HCAHPS composite benchmarks.
- Documentation meets criteria for core measure, charges, PI, and all quality/regulatory standards as measured by chart audits.
- Documents care accurately and timely.
- Assists in completing, monitoring, and evaluation of unit-based Performance Improvement activities.
- Promotes staff development through patient care assignments, acting as a clinical resource and role model, identifying educational needs and ensuring staff attendance at educational in-services.
- Encourages and supports front-line decision making.
ASSESSMENT:
- Collection of comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health/situation and unit specific data for process improvement initiatives including initial patient assessment within expected timeframe, initiates consults as indicated from database collection, identifies patient/family teaching and discharge planning needs.
DIAGNOSIS:
- Analyzes the assessment data to determine expected outcomes and plan of care.
OUTCOMES IDENTIFICATION:
- Identifies expected outcomes for the plan of care individualized to the patient or situation and for unit specific PI outcomes. Participation in identification of unit specific PI outcomes.
PLANNING:
- The patient’s plan of care is developed, individualized and prioritized daily in collaboration with the patient, family and health team members that is sensitive to the patient’s cultural and spiritual needs and to attain expected outcomes.
IMPLEMENTATION:
- Implements the identified plans for patients and unit specific process improvement with appropriate nursing interventions and physicians’ orders in an accurate, timely manner and documents intervention according to hospital policy. Coordinates implementation of the plan of care through leadership and delegation appropriate to skill level including but not limited to: LPNs, NTs, CNAs, Unit Secretaries, RTs, PTs. Educates patient/family based on assessed learning needs.
EVALUATION:
- Evaluates progress toward attainment of expected patient outcomes and unit specific process improvement outcomes daily with patient, family and health team members
PRACTICE:
- Maintains safe practice by demonstrating unit specific clinical competency and demonstrating compliance with all regulatory standards.
- Demonstrates safe practice in the administration of medications.
- Ensures safe and effective handoff communications and documentation of such between care givers.
- Demonstrates sensitivity to pain management by alleviating and reducing pain to level acceptable patient.
- Integrates ethical decision making into daily nursing practice.
- Integrates research findings and Evidence Based Practice into practice.
- Acts as a patient advocate.
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills appropriate to level of experience.
- Integrates population specific standards when planning care.
GROWTH:
- Demonstrates commitment to professional and personal growth, i.e., completes all mandatory educational requirements, maintains unit-based certification, acts as designated preceptor, acts as designated resource nurse, member of professional nursing organization, attains national certification, attends hospital wide committees, member of shared governance council.
Qualifications
What You Will Need:
- Valid American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, AND
- Valid AHA Advanced life support certification (ACLS, PALS, NRP) per specialty/unit requirements
- Skills required for work in critical care area
- Graduate of a school of Nursing.
- Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of experience as a Critical Care Registered Nurse.
- Current registration with Florida State Board of Nursing as a registered professional nurse or licensure from another state with verification of application and eligibility for Florida licensure by endorsement.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
- Experience in a specialty area(s)
- CCRN
Job Summary:
The Rapid Response Nurse-RN utilizes the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation) to delegate, coordinate and provide safe, therapeutic nursing care to patients/families. This individual makes independent judgments/decisions and takes action regarding a wide range of routine and complex patient issues, operating under guidelines of the Rapid Response Team Protocols. The Rapid Response Nurse-RN collaborates with appropriate disciplines to coordinate continuity of patient care from admission through discharge in support of the medical and nursing plans of care. The Rapid Response Nurse-RN acts to support adult inpatient care needs within the facility. This includes the care of critically ill patients and transport from an inpatient unit to the ICU. He/she responds as Code Blue Nurse, promoting effective team interactions, patient assessment, ACLS interventions and complete/accurate documentation. The Rapid Response Nurse-RN responds to and assists with stroke alerts, assisting with plan of care and CT initiation. The Rapid Response Nurse-RN provides house wide support for assessments, specialized equipment, medication administration and a variety of staff needs.
The Registered Nurse provides self-directed, effective nursing care to groups of patients and other duties as assigned in accordance with Division of Nursing standards and pursuant to Florida Department of Professional Regulation, Chapter 464.003 (3) (a): “Practice of professional nursing means the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skill based upon applied practices of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences which shall include, but not limited to:
1. The observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured or infirmed; and the promotion of wellness, maintenance of health and prevention of illness and others.
2. The administration of medication and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized by the laws of this state to prescribe such medications and treatments.
3. The supervision and teaching of other personnel in the theory and performance of any of the above acts.”
This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.