Registered Nurse (RN), ICU PRN, Riverton

Location: Riverton

PRN (As Needed) - No Benefits or Guaranteed Hours

Shift: Varies

Position Summary:

Provides direct high-level nursing care to critically ill patients. Responsible for monitoring life support equipment, attending to wounds, responding to changing patient conditions and providing advanced life support.

Primary (Essential) Duties:

• Assesses, plans and evaluates patient care needs.
• Administers prescribed medications, changes dressings, cleans wounds, and monitors vital signs.
• Carries out physician orders and clarifies, educates and instructs patients and families of them as needed.
• Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate utilizing computerized documentation systems.
• Assesses and coordinates patient discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.

Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position. While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.

Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.

While this job is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

Required:

• Must have current and valid Wyoming RN License or compact equivalent
• Current BLS Certification through American Heart Association
• Current ACLS certification through American Heart Association
• Current PALS or ENPC certification through American Heart Association or required within 90 days of hire or transfer into department
• Current TNCC or within 1 year of initial hire

Preferred:

• Minimum 2+ years Critical Care experience preferred.