Registered Nurse - RN - Nights
Location: Omaha Nebraska
Description: Maxim Healthcare Services is at present recruited Registered Nurse - RN - Nights right now, this career will be placed in Nebraska. More details about this career opportunity please read the description below. Currently seeking Registered Nurses in the Omaha and surrounding areas for local assignments working in the Medical Surgical and Telemetry units for local hospitals in the area.
Per-Diem or Full-Time hours are available; Typically 12 hour shifts.
Day and Night shifts available for weekdays or weekends.
No minimum requirement to pick up.
Must have at least one year of recent Med-Surg or Telemetry experience as a RN.
Current BLS required
Please no new grads at this time.
If you are interested in picking up extra hours or are looking for a change of scenery, please apply online to learn more.
The Registered Nurse, as a professional practitioner employed by Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc., assumes responsibility and accountability for the application of the nursing process and the delivery of patient care. The nurse demonstrates ability to make clinical judgments in an effective and efficient manner with supervision. The nurse demonstrates critical thinking and performance ability in the coordination of patient care. Consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountabl! e in managing patient care and assisting others in the managem! ent of patient care.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
- Performs focused interview to identify specific patients needs.
- Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
- Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
- Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
- Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
- Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.
- Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
- Provides a sa! fe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
- Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education.
- Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
- Documents patient’s response to nursing and other interventions.
- Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities.
- Monitors the safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.
- Participates in activities to facilitate good interpersonal communications with the chosen facility.
- Supports professional practice by observing the following: Uses knowledge and practices in accordance with 1) the Nurse Practice Act; 2) Standards of Nursing Practice; 3) Standards of Patient Care; 4)JCAHO, state and local laws; 5) Patient’s Bill of Rights; and 6) Maxim Healthcare, nursing and client hos! pital policies.
- Other duties as assigned
- Current Registered Nurse License for the state in which the nurse practices.
- Full command, verbal and written, of the English language.
- Current Health Certificate (per facility contract or state regulation).
- Current PPD or Chest X-Ray.
- One year prior professional nursing experience preferred.
- Current BLS card.
- Successful completion of screening tests for the clinical specialty area(s) in which the RN practices with a score of 80% or greater
- Maxim background screening
- May work at off-site facility/ client site
- May be exposed to blood-borne pathogens, chemotherapeutic and toxic chemicals
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- 401k Program
- Competitive Pay
- Flexible Schedulin! g
- Direct Deposit
- Free Continuing Education (CE) Program
- Positive Work Environment and Friendly Staff Bonuses
- Travel Benefits (as applicable)
- 24 hour on- call service
EOE/AAE
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Maxim Healthcare Services.
If you interested on this career just click on the Apply button, you will be redirected to the official website
This career starts available on: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:47:29 GMT