Registered Nurse Medical Surgical

Job Purpose: Provides patient care and staff education by utilizing specialty training; consulting with patients and health professionals.

Duties: Assesses patient needs within specialty area by obtaining a medical history; examining the patient; gathering related information. Develops nursing care plan by analyzing and documenting the patient's physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; applying special training. Provides coordinated patient treatment by communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team.

Updates nursing care plan by maintaining and reviewing medical record; keeping abreast of changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating goals; modifying treatment plan. Maintains quality of care by integrating risk management, quality management, utilization management, and infection control management principles within the care plan. Keeps nurse manager informed by communicating current activities and problems in specialty care.

Prepares health care providers in speciality care delivery by applying knowledge and special training; providing educational programs; monitoring specialty care applications; counseling caregivers. Provides speciality care information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends. Completes specialty care projects by identifying and implementing new technology and resources; redesigning systems; re-deploying human resources; revising educational programs.

Maintains legal and accreditation compliance by recommending policy positions concerning federal, state, and local regulations, and jacho standards; anticipating emerging issues. Updates specialty care job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. Enhances nursing and medical center reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Skills/Qualifications: Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Bedside Manner, Administering Medication, Judgment, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Infection Control, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Pain Management, Acute/Critical Care