Travel Nurse RN - Interventional Radiology
Florence, South Carolina
McLeod Regional Medical Center

BLS

State Licensure

Assesses needs of patients as assigned based on data collected through history, observation, physical examination, and analysis of diagnostic data.

Plans individualized nursing care to meet the holistic age specific needs of patients.

Provides appropriate nursing interventions, consistent with the Plan of Care and standards of practice, incorporating the Physician's prescribed medical plans of care.

Demonstrates competency in, but not limited to, the following on the McLeod Health Nursing Competencies.

Utilizes appropriate health and safety equipment to protect both patients and staff.

Performing Patient Safety Initiatives including Patient Identification, Effective Communication, Labeled Specimens, Clinical Alarms, Healthcare Related Infections, and Universal Protocol.

Carrying out Physician’s Orders: Illegibility Expectations/Unapproved Abbreviations, Telephone/Verbal Orders, Acknowledging Orders, Reviewing Standing Orders and Order Sets, Scanning to Pharmacy, and Review of ED Record

Nursing Handoff in Care/Bedside Report: Nursing Expectations, Document review, Review completing patient handoff, and Hemodialysis consent and handoff in care.

Completing Procedural Paperwork: Consent form, Rite Site Form/Procedure, Pre-Procedure Checklist, Time out, Post Procedural Care & Documentation, and Verbalizes the importance of pre/post op care and education.

Maintaining Patient Privacy with the Patient Record/Patient Information: HIPAA, Security of medical records, Patient Safety, Plan-of-Care, Education Assessment, and RN versus LPN Nursing Responsibilities.

Reconciling and Administering Patient Medication in accordance with policies and procedures.

Administering Blood and Blood products in accordance with policies and procedures.

Utilizing Improve the Process.

Utilizing and performing Code Management: Crash Cart/Rapid Response/End of Life.

Caring for patients with, but not limited to, the following unit specific needs and/or conditions: Moderate sedation, point of care testing, contrast injector, sheath removal, operation of patient equipment utilizing in the procedure suite, operation of Physiological Monitoring System, procedural aseptic scrubbing and technique.