Travel Contract

Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNC Medical Center

$1,879-2,022/week
Posted 18 hours ago  Verified
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    Job details
  • Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
  • Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
    Job requirements
  • -Education: Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
  • -Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
  • With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
  • Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
  • Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
  • -Evaluation of Care -Identifies expected patient outcomes.
  • Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
  • Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
  • Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
  • -Implementation: Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
  • Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
  • Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
  • Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
  • Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
  • -Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
  • Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
  • Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
  • Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
  • Effectively uses communication systems.
  • Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
  • Gives feedback to co-workers.
  • Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
  • Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
  • -Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
  • Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
  • Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
  • Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
  • Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
  • -Planning: Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
  • Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
  • Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
  • Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
  • Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
  • -Research: Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
  • Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.
    Additional Details
  • Required Skills & Experience: One (1) year of nursing experience.
  • Preferred Skills & Experience: N/A
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  • Short Term Acute Care
  • Teaching Institution
  • 799 beds
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ADDRESS101 Manning DrChapel Hill, NC 27514
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