Registered Nurse - Diagnostic Cardiology - Part-Time, and 3rd weekend

General Summary

• Schedule:
  
  Part‑Time, 6:30 am–5 pm every other weekend, 16–32 hours per pay
• Hospital:
  Henry Ford Health Genesys
• Location:
  
  Grand Blanc, Michigan

• Sign On Bonus: $4,000
• Department:
  Diagnostic Cardiology

• Use independent professional judgment, analytical skills, and the nursing process to provide a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients.
• Within the framework of the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice, demonstrates clinical competence; compassion and customer service orientation; focus on process and outcomes; and cost‑consciousness when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care provided to patients.
• Provide patient care that reflects a respect for patient's rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs. Assess patient/family needs for information and education across the continuum, plan and implement patient teaching using a variety of techniques and methods, and evaluate effectiveness of educational interventions.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Orientation Self‑Evaluation: (C) Competent (NT) Needs Training or Review.
• Complete assessment for Risk Factors; including fall, skin breakdown, VTE, and aspiration. Initiate appropriate initiatives as indicated SKINN Bundle, Fall Prevention Plan, SCD, etc.
• Initiate Problems and Outcomes list (plan‑of‑care) based on medical diagnosis and patient needs.
• Monitor, document, and report patient response to interventions and progress toward outcomes.
• Educate patient regarding treatment plan, safety measures, medications, and self‑care as indicated.
• Review discharge plans/instructions with patient prior to discharge, including signs/symptoms to watch for after leaving the hospital.
• Ensure that core measures, such as Discharge Instructions, are given to all CHF patients.
• Administration of therapeutic regimens: demonstrate knowledge and skill application of basic nursing procedures—dressing change, catheterization, NG tube insertion, suctioning.
• Implement and complete medical interventions as ordered.
• Assess and initiate interventions to prevent/minimize patient skin breakdown.
• Follow clinical practice guidelines and procedures as written.
• Establish and maintain peripheral IV therapy.
• Obtain body fluid specimens per procedure.
• Perform blood capillary glucose monitoring.
• Administer medications, IVs, and blood products according to established policies and procedures.
• Prepare patients for surgery or other invasive procedures according to established guidelines.
• Utilize equipment based on manufacturers instructions and established nursing procedure. Correctly operate and troubleshoot IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, patient beds as applicable.
• Monitoring patient responses/responding to changing patient situations.
• Regularly review work in progress to ensure that treatments, medications, and tests ordered are expeditiously carried out and documented.
• Review patient medical record/reports and confer with physician regarding treatment plans. Routinely check chart for new orders.
• Monitor patient physiologic parameters—including vital signs, lab work, I&O, blood glucose; recognize and report meaningful changes and intervene appropriately.
• Monitor presence and intensity of patient pain on admission, after pain‑producing events, with each new report of pain, and routinely at regular intervals.
• Informs patient about pain relief and pain relief measures; administer pain medication or alternative interventions as indicated.
• Recognize acute changes in respiratory status—dyspnea, cyanosis, tachypnea, respiratory depression, airway obstruction—and respond appropriately with direct intervention and physician/SWAT notification.
• Recognize acute changes in neurologic status/decreased LOC and respond appropriately with direct intervention and physician/SWAT notification.
• Recognize acute changes in cardiac status—tachycardia, chest pain—and respond appropriately with direct intervention and physician/SWAT notification.
• Recognize acute changes in…