Registered Nurse - Perinatal Educator - Per Diem Days

• Performs age and disease specific assessment / data collection independently in a systematic manner focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status.

• Recognizes clinical and diagnostic status changes in patient status.

• Identifies variables in patient/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.

Plan

• Develops a plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes.

• Formulates age and disease specific patient / family centered goals / outcomes based on assessment data.

• Develops and coordinates a plan of care which is patient / family focused, prioritized and encompasses the continuum of care.

Implementation

• Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.

• Provides ongoing communication with patient / family, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status, rendered care and treatment plans.

• Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner.

• Provides or coordinates the patient / family education as needed and ensures understanding.

• Performs according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate persons and documenting events.

• Provides nursing care and treatments that reflect the patients' needs, advocates appropriately and demonstrates evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards.

• Performs continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual patient's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions and evaluation of rendered care.

• Medication administration utilizing the newest advancements in bar-scanning and documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our patients.

• Multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.

Evaluation

• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.

• Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired patient outcomes.

• Initiates interventions related to patient's change in condition and unexpected response to care.

Additional

Responsibilities

• Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members.

• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.

• Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education in order to meet any facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.

• Adheres to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.

• Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day.

• Adheres to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.

• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.