Description:RN Stepdown / Cardiac Progressive

Position Information:
Role: RN
Specialty: CardiacTransitionalCare
Type of Patients on Unit: Cardiac Stepdown patients

Job Summary Delivers Nursing Care by developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families/support person to understand patient conditions, medications, and self-care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives.

Essential Functions
• Assures quality care by adhering to professional standards, healthcare organization policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and The Joint Commission standards
• Maintains cooperative relationships among healthcare team members
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations; adhering to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records
• Protects healthcare organization value by keeping information confidential; cautioning others regarding potential breaches
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions to appropriate healthcare team member
• Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
• Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention and management
• Provides patient care by reviewing providers orders; communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinating with other healthcare providers; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families/support person; conferring with providers
• Maintaining standards of professional nursing care
• Resolves patient issues by conferring with parties involved
• Promotes a culture of safety by maintaining awareness of patient s safety needs at all times; acts as a patient advocate by voicing concerns, using chain of command as necessary; adheres to safety practices i.e. safety huddles, bedside shift report
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examining patients; documenting patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; conferring with family/support person; developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables
• Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized interventions and monitor patients for reactions or side effects
• Preparing patient for and assisting with exams as needed.
• Explaining procedures/treatment/discharge to patient and family members to alleviate apprehension and to verify understanding of procedure/discharge
• IV therapy competency including care for central lines
• Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations
• Appropriate supervision and delegation of duties to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and other ancillary staff
• Assures compliance with Joint Commission standards regarding National Patient Safety Goals and other areas of accreditation.
• Other specified duties as assigned for patient care and unit specific competencies
• Any other duties as needed to drive to the Vision, fulfill the Mission, and abide by the Values of the organization

Mercy Southeast Hospital is a 245 bed Level 3 Emergency and Trauma Center located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
• Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification from The Joint Commission's Accreditation and Certification program
• Primary Stroke Center Certification with Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers
• Missouri Level II Stroke Center designation from Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Missouri's Time Critical Diagnosis System
• Missouri Level I STEMI Center designation from Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Missouri's Time Critical Diagnosis System

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