RN | Premium Float Pool | PRN | Nights

Overview

The Registered Nurse Float III provides individualized nursing care services within the standards of nursing practice: assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, evaluation, and patient health education. This RN Float III will float between the Med Surg and Critical Care areas or other areas as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Perform accurate and complete assessments on patients within established time frames; requests consult as indicated.
• Establishes and updates a patient plan of care based on periodic assessments.
• Assists with providing for the physical comfort and safety of patients (i.e. bath and linen changes, administration of medication(s), dietary intake, and other necessary treatments).
• Ensures security of patient’s personal items and reports discrepancies to supervisor in a timely fashion.
• Attend rounds with physicians as indicated, assist with exams, discuss patient progress.
• Review and implement physician’s orders.
• Provide concise bedside report regarding patients' status to the on-coming shift.
• Demonstrates the proper procedure for obtaining, charging for, and returning supplies/equipment and maintains adequate supply levels through the use of accurate inventory control.
• Obtains and verifies consent forms.
• Supervises and gives assignments to the staff assigned to his/her patients.
• Recognizes and intervenes in life threatening emergencies, including the administration of emergency drugs, and defibrillator or other emergency treatment.
• Regularly evaluate patient’s level of pain using an approved pain scale, as evidenced by documentation on the medical record.
• Intervenes in a timely manner to alleviate patient’s pain and evaluate the effectiveness of relief efforts, as evidenced by documentation on the medical record.
• Educate patients and their families to pain management at UF Health St.
• Johns as evidenced by documentation on the medical record.
• Performs QA initiatives related to core Measures and Flagler Hospital Admission Standards.
• Provides and documents patient education based on assessed needs, including family and patient preferences in teaching as appropriate.
• SHIFT REQUIREMENT: A minimum of sixteen (16) shifts per quarter to maintain competent performance.