RN Emergency Department Avondale

Position Details

Department: PCH-SW | Emergency Department

Location: Avondale

Shift: Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun, (Days Vary), Shifts Vary, 7pm-8:30am

Category: Nursing

Posting #: 751097

Employee Type: Varies

Position Summary

Posting Note: Looking for experienced, compassionate and motivated RN's to join our amazing ED team!

The Avondale Emergency Department is Phoenix Children's newly opened, 40-bed ancillary, level IV trauma ED in the Southwest Valley. The ED provides high quality family-centered care to a wide range of diagnoses, illnesses and injuries. Registered Nurses work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to care for patients.

Clinical leadership is available on both days and nights to provide ongoing support. The level IV trauma and ED environment requires those with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills, excellent communication and teamwork, as well as the desire to work in a fast paced, dynamic setting. Previous pediatric ED, acute, or critical care experience preferred. This will be a full-time nights position (7pm - 730am).

This position works in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient and family to promote patient health through delivery of professional nursing care appropriate to patients age and condition as documented in the nursing and medical plans of care in accordance with evidence-based nursing and patient care practice standards and hospital goals, values and regulatory standards.

Position Duties

• Completes nursing assessment of patient conditions consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine initial level of compliance with treatment plan per policy and unit guidelines. Performs ongoing patient and family assessments and identifies variations from diagnoses.

• Continually evaluates patient responses to care, teaching, and discharge plans. Documents patient progress in appropriate charts and shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team and families to ensure timely communication and understanding of patient health status, progress, and ongoing needs.

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage and documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.

• Provides orientation to the unit, hospital systems, and processes to patients and family members to ensure familiarity with unit's policies and requirements.

• Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members' performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.

• Works collaboratively with patient care team and family members to establish and implement plan of care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status. Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.

• Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.