Registered Nurse Transition to Practice Emergency Department

If you are an existing employee of South Shore Health then please apply through the internal career site.

Requisition Number:

R-17861

Facility:

LOC0001 - 55 Fogg Road55 Fogg Road Weymouth, MA 02190

Department Name:

SSH Emergency Department HB

Status:

Full time

Budgeted Hours:

36

Shift:

Evening (United States of America)

At South Shore Health, we come together to improve the health of our family, friends and neighbors by bringing together people, caregivers and excellence in medicine. We are seeking an experienced RN to join our Emergency Department nursing team at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, MA. If you want to learn more about Emergency Nursing, possess multi-tasking and critical thinking skills, thrive working in a fast paced, team-based and safety conscious environment, are self-motivated and have excellent interpersonal skills, we invite you to participate in our upcoming Emergency Department RN Transition to Practice Program.



What is the Emergency Department RN Transition to Practice Program?

16 weeks of training that is tailored to meet your individual learning needs in our Level II Trauma Center at South Shore Health
Hands-on nursing experience in assessing patients, planning care and providing care
Successful program participants will be placed in a full-time night shift position in the Emergency Department


Qualifications:

Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
Current RN license in the state of Massachusetts
Previous Med surg/Telemetry RN experience preferred
Certifications depend on department and can include BLS, ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC, TCAR and/or Emergency Response Training


Pay Range - range is $37.04/hr-$75.03/hr

Manages individualized, outcome oriented nursing care through the use of the nursing process. Provides care, treatment and services through the successful coordination and completion of a series of processes that include assessment, planning care, providing care, in accordance with departmental and hospital policies and procedures

1. Medication Administration

a. Demonstrates knowledge of and follows SSH policies and procedures for administering, transcribing, and recording medications.

b. Completes medication reconciliation process following SSH policy and procedure.

c. Demonstrates proper procedure for the documentation of narcotic withdrawal, administration, verifies count, wastes per policy and resolves narcotic discrepancy.


2. Plan of care/Documentation/Patient Family Centered Care/Patient Experience Develops, discusses, and communicates a prioritized problem list/plan of care for each patient.

a. Develop, evaluate and update individualized plan of care for patient and documents outcomes.

b. Initiating admission assessment within 8 hours of admissions, identifies and documents patient/family/significant other teaching needs upon admission and throughout hospitalization.

c. Continues assessment/reassessment and identifies care needs within established nursing practice.

d. Documents all patient care following the department of nursing policy, unit based standards, disease processes (CHF, PNA vaccines) and nurse sensitive indicators (falls, skin, CAUTI)

e. Assess/reassesses and documents patient's level of comfort utilizing the appropriate pain scale and the patient's response to each intervention both pharmacological and non-pharmacological per South Shore Hospital policy.

f. Works on behalf of patient /family. Seeks help to represent patient/family when they are unable to represent themselves.

g. Raises ethical questions and concerns with clinical team. Seeks available resources to help formulate and understand ethical decisions.

h. Actively communicates plan of day via white board updating every shift.

i. Facilitates discharge/transfer by goal of 12:00pm, communicates barriers utilizing chain of command.


3. Safety/Quality - Foster's a "Culture of Safety" through personal ownership and commitment to a safe environment.

a. Verifies patient identification with two identifiers prior to the start of any invasive procedure, including "time out", administration of care, medications, labeled specimen's an documents confirming the correct patient, procedure, site, equipment and consent.

b. Complies with the current CDC hand hygiene guidelines through proper handwashing. Adheres to universal precautions, makes appropriate use of personal protective equipment at all times and appropriately disposes of hazardous materials. Maintains awareness of MSDS sheets and how to access.