RN Emergency Department PRN

Employment Type:Part timeShift:12 Hour Day ShiftDescription:GENERAL SUMMARY AND PURPOSE:Provides professional nursing care in collaboration with members of the health care team in the ongoing assessment, planning and treatment of patients and families. Utilizes resources wisely while promoting physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being. Maintains accurate and complete documentation of nursing services. Serves as a patient advocate.In addition to providing hands-on nursing care, works and serves in a broad range of capacities including, but not limited to, delegation, assessment, planning of care and treatment, teaching of the patient and the patient’s family.Expected to exercise competency in judgment, decision-making, implementation of nursing intervention, delegation of function or responsibility, and administration of medications and treatments prescribed by legally authorized persons.SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:One year of ED experience highly preferred.Must be licensed in the State of Oregon as a Registered Nurse as defined by the Oregon State Board of Nursing. American Heart Association Basic Life Support for HealthCare Provider (BLS/HCP) certification required. Demonstrated team, analysis, presentation, and interpersonal skills required. Requires intermediate computer skills including medical record keeping. Ability to work with a wide variety of people under adverse conditions required.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Organization's Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions. Demonstrates knowledge and skills to competently care for all assigned age groups (Neonate, Child, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric as applicable). Revenue Management: ensures the accuracy of documenting services and supplies provided to the patients. Demonstrates compliance with hospital safety policies and procedures. Performs and documents comprehensive physical and psychosocial assessments. Educates patient based on assessment of needs. Develops, implements and evaluates a plan of care based on patient's needs. Communicates patient's current status and plan of care to other caregivers (verbally and in writing). Prepares, gives and evaluates the effectiveness of medications. Demonstrates safe operation of patient care equipment. Advocates for the rights of patients. Provides nursing measures to alleviate or reduce pain. Demonstrates therapeutic communication. Establishes therapeutic and professional boundaries. Integrates knowledge, experience, professional standards and hospital policies into nursing practice. Meets unit specific technical skills. Practices with the rules and regulations defined by the Oregon State Board of Nursing.Trinity Health's Commitment to Diversity and InclusionTrinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 94 hospitals, as well as 109 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually.Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $17.6 billion and assets of $24.7 billion, the organization returns $1.1 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity Health is known for its focus on the country's aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services — ranked by number of visits — in the nation, as well as the nation’s leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs. For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org at http://www.trinity-health.org/ . You can also follow @TrinityHealthMI on Twitter.