JOB TITLE – RN - MEDICAL/SURGICAL TELEMETRY

Locations: Concord, Monroe, Charlotte, India Trail, and Albemarle, North Carolina

Pay Rate/BOE - $34.62 – $47.60

Shifts: Day and Night Availability

Duties

• Essential Functions Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation.


• Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.


• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.


• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes. Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.


• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.


• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.


• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.


• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.


•  Collaborates with healthcare consumers and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.


• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.


• Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.


• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice. Contributes to quality nursing practice.


• Evaluates one's own and other's nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.


• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.


• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.


• Practice ethically.


• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision-making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.

Physical Requirements:

• Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling.


• Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies.


• Must speak English in good, understandable terms. Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Finger dexterity.


• Critical thinking and ability to concentrate.


• Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions.

Skills:

• Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider status according to the American Heart Association.


• Current RN - license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state in which you work and reside or; if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home state.


•  Non-National License Compact states, a current RN - license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner required in the state where the RN - works

Education:

Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.