Summary
Concord Hospital - Laconia is seeking experienced RNs to join our RN Float Team. The float team offers you the opportunity to use your diverse clinical skills and competencies in a variety of acute care settings. This float team position will offer exposure to a variety of medical/ surgical or critical care units across the hospital and provide you with an opportunity to further develop your skill base.
Education
Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing, BSN preferred.
Certification, Registration & Licensure
Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association
Experience
One year prior clinical nursing experience. Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.
Responsibilities
- Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
- Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
- Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
- Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
- Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
- Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care. Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
- Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
- Administers medications to patients.
- Provides direct patient care.
- Leads the health care team.
- Serves as a Resource Person for assigned shift.
- Serves as a preceptor for new employees.
- Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.
Per Diems are required to work a minimum of 24 clinical hours every 4 weeks, which will include at least 1 weekend shift and at least 1 summer holiday and 1 winter holiday or difficult-to-fill shift around the observed summer and winter holidays.
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Physical and Work Requirements
The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must
regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, hear, speak,
and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand. The employee is
occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision,
and peripheral vision.
The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
