Albany Medical Center·City of Albany, New York
The Clinical Nurse assesses, coordinates, plans, directs, implements, and manages the needs of assigned patients throughout their care episode. They ensure competent and compassionate patient care is provided uniformly across various settings.
Neurosciences & Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) - D5N
Work Shift: Night (United States of America)
$88,192.00 - $136,697.60
The clinical Nurse contributes to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families and colleagues through displays of kindness and active listening. Recognizes and appreciates that each employee’s work is valuable and contributes to the success of the Mission.
D5N is a 21 bed neurosciences unit with one level of care.
We take patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, brain tumors, aneurysms, seizures, traumatic brain injuries, neuromuscular diseases and other diagnoses involving the neurologic system.
The floor beds consist of patients requiring every 4-hour monitoring.
Additionally, there are 7 Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) beds embedded in the 21 neuro floor beds.
These patients are seizure disorder patients admitted electively with their anti-convulsant medications on hold and hard wired to continuous EEG.
This allows the physicians to identify the area of the brain where the seizures are occurring.
Many of these patients become candidates for brain mapping with surgically placed grids to further pinpoint the area causing the seizures.
This mapping allows the surgeon to determine if the patient would be a candidate for surgical removal of parts of the brain to stop seizure activity and still allow the patient to have functionality.
The nurse-to-patient ratio for floor patients is typically 1:5.
Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center!
Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Medical Center, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
Candidates must be graduates of a professional nursing program and hold a current NYS Registered Nurse license. They should have 1-3 years of clinical RN experience, including at least 1 year in Telemetry or ICU.
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