Registered Nurse
St. Luke's University Health Network
Lehighton, Pennsylvania
The Registered Nurse (RN) Urgent Care delivers nursing care for patients across their life span, and through the nursing process, assesses plans, implements, and documents the effects of care. This one is per diem, so you pick up the shifts you want. St. Luke's University Health Network is an academic medical center.
Posted Sep 15
- Unit and setting
- Urgent Care patients across their life span
- License
- RN license Registered Nurse with current license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania.Registered Nurse with current license to practice in Pennsylvania
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Registered Nurse with current license to practice in Pennsylvania Registered Nurse with current license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania. Check your license
- Certification
- BLS Successful completion of BLS.
Preferred
- Experience
- occupational medicine and urgent care experience Experience in occupational medicine and urgent care is preferred.
What it pays
Benefits
- CEU Allowance
The role and schedule
- Patients
- occupational health patients and acute illness/injury patients
- Day to day
- perform essential functions of the Registered Nurse Demonstrates the ability to perform the essential functions of the Registered Nurse.
- Day to day
- provide essential medical care to urgent care and occupational health patients Provide essential medical care to both urgent care patients and occupational health patients
- Day to day
- assist physician with procedures Demonstrates knowledge of procedure done in this area and is able to assist physician as indicated.
- Day to day
- implement, evaluate, and document patient care interventions and effectiveness Implements, evaluates, and documents patient care interventions and effectiveness in accordance with care plan.
- Day to day
- maintain awareness of unit budget Demonstrates an awareness of unit budget.
- Day to day
- serve as professional role model and resource person providing guidance to co-workers and students Functions as a professional role model and resource person providing guidance to co-workers and students.
- Day to day
- participate actively in unit-based Performance Improvement Takes active role in unit-based Performance Improvement.
- Day to day
- identify unit needs and support unit goals and objectives Participates in identifying unit needs and supports unit goals and objectives.
- Day to day
- maintain responsibility for professional development through in-services and continuing education Maintains responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-services and/or continuing education programs.
- Day to day
- develop, evaluate, and adjust staffing based on patient care needs Develops, evaluates, and adjusts current and future staffing based upon patient care needs; initiates adjustments as needed.
- Day to day
- assign responsibility for patient care within unit-based team Assigns responsibility for patient care with the unit-based team.
- Day to day
- facilitate staff education activities including orientation, competency, skill reviews, and mandatory in-servicing Facilitates staff education activities (i.e. orientation, competency, skill reviews, mandatory in-servicing).
- Day to day
- provide input to annual performance reviews of assigned staff Provides input to annual performance reviews of assigned staff.
- Day to day
- conduct customer service activities and handle complaints Conducts customer service activities and handling of complaints - patients, families, staff or physician.
- Charge
- assist with management functions on unit Assists with management functions on unit.
- Day to day
- manage daily operations within budget parameters Manages daily operations within budget parameters.
- Day to day
- perform systematic assessment of assigned patients Performs in depth, systematic assessment of all assigned patients.
- Day to day
- formulate collaborative plans of care and identify expected outcomes Formulates collaborative plans of care and identifies expected patient outcomes.
- Day to day
- organize, coordinate, and prioritize patient care Organizes, coordinates, and prioritizes patient care consistently utilizing available resources.
Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.
The Registered Nurse (RN) Urgent Care delivers nursing care for patients across their life span, and through the nursing process, assesses plans, implements, and documents the effects of care. Within the urgent care setting care will be provided to occupational health patients (physicals, drug screens, injury care etc.,) and patients that arrive with an acute illness/injury. This individual will work cooperatively with ancillary, nursing and other patient-team personnel to maintain standards for professional nursing practice.
These nursing functions of the RN are carried out according to the Pennsylvania Nurse Practice Act, Hospital policy, the hospital Mission Statement, and the Philosophy of the Department of Nursing.
Job duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrates the ability to perform the essential functions of the Registered Nurse.
- Provide essential medical care to both urgent care patients and occupational health patients
- Demonstrates knowledge of procedure done in this area and is able to assist physician as indicated.
- Implements, evaluates, and documents patient care interventions and effectiveness in
- accordance with care plan.
- Demonstrates an awareness of unit budget.
- Functions as a professional role model and resource person providing guidance to co-workers and students.
- Takes active role in unit-based Performance Improvement.
- Participates in identifying unit needs and supports unit goals and objectives.
- Maintains responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-services and/or continuing education programs.
- Develops, evaluates, and adjusts current and future staffing based upon patient care needs; initiates adjustments as needed.
- Assigns responsibility for patient care with the unit-based team.
- Facilitates staff education activities (i.e. orientation, competency, skill reviews, mandatory in-servicing).
- Provides input to annual performance reviews of assigned staff.
- Conducts customer service activities and handling of complaints – patients, families, staff or physician.
- Assists with management functions on unit.
- Manages daily operations within budget parameters.
- Performs in depth, systematic assessment of all assigned patients.
- Formulates collaborative plans of care and identifies expected patient outcomes.
- Implements, evaluates, and documents patient care interventions and effectiveness in
- accordance with care plan.
- Organizes, coordinates, and prioritizes patient care consistently utilizing available resources.
Physicial and sensory
Requirements
Sit up to 2 hours per day; 1 hour at a time. Stand for up to 8 hours per day; 4 hours at a time. Walk 6 hours per day; 10 minutes at a time.
Consistently life, push and carry objects up to 10 lbs. Frequently life, carry and push objects up to 75 lbs. Transport patients weighing up to 400 lbs. via wheelchair, bed and/or stretcher with assistance when appropriate.
Consistently pull up to 10 lbs. Frequently pull up to 250 lbs. with assistance when appropriate. Frequently stoop, bend, crouch, kneel and climb.
Frequently reach above shoulder level. Occasional crawling. Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch.
Frequently finger and handle objects. Occasionally firmly grasp, twist, turn objects with hands and fingers. Must be able to hear as it relates to normal conversation, high and low frequencies.
Must be able to see as it relates to general, near, far, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and visual monotony (e.g. computer screen).
Education
Registered Nurse with current license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania.
Training and experience
Successful completion of BLS.
Experience in occupational medicine and urgent care is preferred.
Please complete your application using your full legal name and current home address. Be sure to include employment history for the past seven (7) years, including your present employer. Additionally, you are encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and licenses, if applicable. It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application. Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!!
St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
What's around it?
Lehighton, PAFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 2% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,019/mo
- Household income
- $64,651/yr, all local households, not nurse pay