Job Shift: Rotating. Day 7:00am to 7:30pm and Nights 7:00pm to 7:30am. Weekend and Holiday availability required. Job Type: Per Diem Hours: 12 Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment. • Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrate knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease. • Develop a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions. All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate. • Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience. Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff. • Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart. • Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice. • Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent. • Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated. • Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal. • Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately. • Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading. Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles. • Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students. • Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians. • Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements. Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated. • Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias. • Current CA RN license • Current CPR Certification • ACLS within one year of hire • PALS within one year of hire • Dysrhythmia interpretation course or demonstrated competency in interpretation of dysrhythmias within one year of hire • 1 year Acute Care experience preferred #LI-AM7