Registered Nurse - Clinical Transport Mobile Medicine - PRN

Department:

70516 Atrium Health Mobile Medicine - Fixed Wing Transports

Status:

Part time

Benefits Eligible:

No

Hours Per Week:

0

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Variable

Pay Range

$37.50 - $56.25

Essential Functions
• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Practices ethically
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion
• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects the current nursing practice
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice
• Communicates effectively in a variety of format in all areas of practice.
• Evaluates her for his own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Participates in committees, shared governance, or other facility decision making activities.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
• Models the mission, vision, values, standards of excellence and goals of the Advocate health system.
• Supports and contributes to the patient centered care philosophy by understanding that every teammate is a caregiver whose role is to meet the needs of the patient.
• Required to have operational knowledge for multiple modes of transportation including ambulances, helicopters and airplanes. Must be trained in aviation and meet the minimum requirements to operate as a “flight crew member” per FAA Part 135 regulations. Including operation of Night Vision Googles to ensure safe landings.
• Independently initiates advanced practice procedures to provide improved patient outcomes such as: drug assisted intubation, video laryngoscopy, needle chest decompression, chest tube insertion, central line placement (UA/UV, EJ), intraosseous placement, transvenous/transcutaneous pacing, needle cricothyroidotomy, surgical cricothyroidotomy, and initiation/titration of pharmacological agents.
• Initiates intubation procedures and sets up ventilation equipment. Operates, assesses, and manages patient airway support, ventilator settings and equipment.
• Transports and monitors patients requiring ECMO, Medical Circulatory Devices (VAD, Impella), Intra-aortic Balloon Counter Pulsation, Internal/External Pacing, Ventriculostomy, and Point of Care. Must be capable of handling equipment challenges and failures without support of internal hospital resources.
• Works in an autonomous environment that requires patient management and critical decision-making based upon the dynamic patient status in unique settings such as accident/scene calls outside the traditional hospital and healthcare setting with limited resources and support.
• Responds to accident scenes and is expected to work in hazardous environments. Including inclement weather, biohazards and highly infectious patients. Responds to disasters and maybe deployed for extended periods of time.
Physical Requirements
• In order to meet safe flight weight limitations and scheduling requirements candidates must weigh less than 240 pounds and must maintain that weight while employed at MCA (exception will be made only when department has ground position needs).
• Duties require working and transporting patients in ambulances as well as driving vehicles including ambulances in all weather conditions. Required to drive to and work at multiple locations across applicable state and SC based on staffing needs.
• Must not have any physical, emotional, or mental impairment to prevent them from riding, driving, or administering patient care in transport vehicle. This work area has cramped space and can be poorly lit. Noise levels are moderate as associated with working in and around emergency vehicles. Hearing protection is available and required for use around “hot” aircraft. Requires handl