Registered Nurse | Medical Specialties | Per Diem

Summary

The Medical Specialties unit (5 South) is a 20 bed inpatient unit. Medical Specialties is a fast-paced, dynamic area of nursing care. This unit carries a large volume of patients daily. This unit allows nurses to care for a variety of patients across the lifespan (ages 18 and up), who have had or could potentially have orthopedic surgery. The vast variety of medical and surgical patients that nurses care for allows for great opportunities for personal growth and continuing education. Specialized training will be provided to care for this patient population. Nursing on this unit must exhibit exceptional teamwork and communication skills, and the unit offers a very supportive environment for new nurses. Through the nursing career ladder program, nursing is encouraged to grow not only at the bedside, but also develop professionally with unit-based practice and system-wide quality improvement initiatives.

Education

Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing, BSN preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing ​

Basic Life Support - American Heart Association

Refer to "Management of Mandatory Required Certification, Competencies, Education/Training-Nursing" Policy for department specific certifications.

Experience

One year prior clinical nursing experience. Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.

Responsibilities

• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.

• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.

• Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.

• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.

• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.

• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care. Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.

• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.

• Administers medications to patients.

• Provides direct patient care.

• Leads the health care team.

• Serves as a Resource Person for assigned shift.

• Serves as a preceptor for new employees.

• Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of

those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must

regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and

occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, hear, speak,

and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand. The employee is

occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision,

and peripheral vision.

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