Registered Nurse Emergency Department

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

Requisition Number:

R-18037

Facility:

LOC0001 - 55 Fogg Road55 Fogg Road Weymouth, MA 02190

Department Name:

SSH Emergency Department HB

Status:

Part time

Budgeted Hours:

24

Shift:

Evening (United States of America)

Many opportunities for EXPERIENCED Emergency Department Nurses as we prepare for more growth!
If you have at least 6 months of paid Emergency Nursing experience, we want to speak with you about the reasons you should consider joining this amazing team! Our colleagues love our STELLAR Nurse Managers, Self- Scheduling, Third weekend rotation, Free onsite certifications, Shared Governance, Free parking….need I say more? Our Level II Trauma Center is here for the majority of traumas on the South Shore, saving lives every day.
Join us for a networking event and TRIVIA NIGHT at a local establishment on April 9th from 5:30-7:30 for fun, prizes, and to chat with our ED Nurses and Nurse Leaders. We are excited to meet you! This event is only open to experienced ED Nurses, Paramedics, and EMTs, so please register here and we will send you the details and confirmation. Please copy and paste this link to RSVP! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KBVVCDC

Are you an EMT or Paramedic looking for a great opportunity? Our EMS Division is growing, and we’d want to speak with you about why you should join this team. We proudly serve the entire Weymouth community as well as other neighboring towns and surrounding areas. Whether you’re new to EMS or an experienced EMT or Paramedic, we offer excellent opportunities and flexible schedules with shift differentials.
We also have opportunities with our Mobile Integrated Health Team and have recently expanded our program with Hospital at Home, providing acute care-level nursing for patients in the comfort of their own home. You’ll have the chance to work with our Dispatchers in our state of the art Communication Center, and evolve throughout your career with South Shore Health.


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 pati