Acute Care RN

Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing 

Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year or more in Critical Care, Medical/Surgical, Intermediate, and Emergency Department units  

Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina.  

Essential Functions 

PATIENT CARE AND SUPPORT 

•  Establishes positive rapport with patient and family. 

•  Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families. 

•  Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions. 

•  Serves as patient/family advocate 

•  Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs. 

•  Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgment, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems. 

•  Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner. 

•  Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. 

•  Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes. 

Clinical duties & Responsibilites 

• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; follows hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. 

•  Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies. 

•  Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel. 

•  Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. 

•  Documents all patient care activities accurately and timely. 

•  Provides safe, appropriate, quality of care and support to patients and family members. 

•  Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. 

•  Demonstrates effective teamwork skills and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods. 

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

•  Maintains required certifications. 

•  Demonstrates effective teamwork skills and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods. 

• Completes safety training and other mandatory classes per facility/unit policy. 

•  Complies with all employee health requirements.