Registered Nurse-Hourly Per Diem
5 months ago
Edison
Job Category: Center Part-Time May Street Surgi Center | 2234-001 Edison Twp, NJ 08837-3267, USA Essential Duties And Responsibilities: • Obtains and documents patient's medical history and perform physical assessment, • Uses proper techniques and procedures according to accepted standards of practice and center policies and procedures, • Ability to apply dressings and assess status, • Ability to safely use medical equipment per manufacturer's instructions for use, • Ability to insert, assess, or discontinue various catheters and tubes, • Effectively organizes and avoids wasteful practices of time, equipment, and supplies, • Observes universal precautions, • Attends all required education, • Regular and predictable attendance, • Performs other duties as assigned Regulatory/Compliance: • Contributes to the progress and development of the center's compliance program, • Performs according to accreditation requirements, regulatory standards and center policies and procedures, • Adheres to patients' rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties, • Adheres to rules and regulations for Protected Health Information (PHI) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) protections of patient information Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI): • Performs according to the centers adopted policies and procedures, • Ensures compliance with the center's adopted quality assurance performance improvement program (QAPI), policies and procedures, • Proactively contributes to the QAPI process and identifies his or her own role and contributions Safety: • Adheres to best practices and regulations adopted, to provide safety in the workplace, • Uses surgical safety checklist, • Monitors the Center's physical environment to ensure the maintenance of safety, comfort, cleanliness, and efficiency, • Monitors the care, cleaning, and required maintenance of equipment to maintain proper working conditions, • Reports observed or suspected safety violations and hazards to the Safety Officer; ensure ongoing policy/procedure compliance, • Adheres to OSHA regulations in performing job duties and responsibilities Communication: • Ability to professionally and effectively communicate patient care needs and significant information to healthcare team to promote continuity of patient care in a clear and concise manner, • Works collaboratively with center leadership on patient and staff scheduling according to policies, procedures, and center needs, • Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions, and professionally interact with physicians, managers, employees, clients, vendors, and the general public, • Interacts with others in a positive, respectful and considerate manner Teamwork: • Works collaboratively with the healthcare team, • Delegates staffing duties appropriately to unlicensed assistive personnel and LVN/LPN, accordance with scope of practice and center policies and procedures, • Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure non-compliance to Center Leader, Safety Officer, and Clinical Director, • Actively participates in staff meetings, in-services, continuing education, and the quality improvement (QAPI) program Financial Practices: • Uses Center resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices, • Reports wasteful practices, • Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements Professional competence: • Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences, • At a minimum, maintains membership in professional organizations per center requirements, • Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities, • Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with center personnel, • Assists Center Leadership with orientation and training of new personnel, • Demonstrates ability to act as a resource for problems related to patient care Essential Values, Codes Of Conduct: • Demonstrates knowledge of and adheres to the Code of Conduct, • Adheres to the Scope of Practice, • Supports the centers mission statement and goals, • Complies with the centers standards for ethical business conduct, • Works with Center Leadership to ensure patient and physician satisfaction, • Adheres to policies and procedures, including, but not limited to, attendance, timeliness, safeguarding confidential information, • Reports incidents in a timely manner, • Demonstrates an attitude of caring, respect, sensitivity, tact, compassion, empathy, and tolerance, • Exhibits mental alertness for quality decision making and exercises good judgment, • Exhibits high level of integrity, • Ability to multi-task effectively, efficiently, accurately, and with attention to detail Mathematical Skills: • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, decimals, and percentages Language Skills: • Ability to understand, read, write, and speak English, if bilingual Center, bilingual language is required, • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations, • Ability to successfully write business correspondence, • Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions, and professionally interact with healthcare team, clients, vendors, and the general public Reasoning Ability: • Demonstrates an ability to recognize and define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and correct errors, • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions and forms to understand abstract and concrete variables, • Ability to think critically using inductive and deductive reasoning Physical Demands: • Ability to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time, i.e., 6-8 hours per day, • Ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds in weight, • Ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously without "giving out" or fatiguing, • Ability to perform physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials, • Ability to position or transport patients, prepare medical procedure rooms, or set up patient care equipment, • Ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position, • Ability to keep or regain your body balance and stay upright, • Ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath, • Ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears, • Specific vision abilities for close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus Work Environment: • Days and hours of work may vary to meet patient and Center needs, • The Center is a well-lit, ventilated and climate controlled environment. The Center may require decreased lighting to meet patient care needs or procedure requirements, such as laser rooms and some OR/Procedure rooms, • Ability to work with medical and office equipment, some of which will have moving parts, • Noise level is usually quiet to moderate, • May have exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials or toxic chemicals and cleaning solutions