Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title: RN
Department of Medical Telemetry Surgical
Visa sponsorship is available to eligible applicants.
There are multiple shifts available, including part-time and full-time, as well as weekend packages!
Purpose: Provides and directs safe, effective, and culturally competent treatment to adolescent and ageing adult patients with health needs. Key accountabilities include using critical thinking and evidence-based practice to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement, and evaluate care; adhering to the ANA’s Professional Practice Standards; and actively participating in quality monitoring and performance improvement activities.
Report to: Manager.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Direction: The role includes some accountability for scheduling, assigning, and organising tasks. Employees monitor job quality and provide guidance, education, training, and direction to others. Although the position does not involve formal or official supervisory duty, the incumbent serves as group leader or in an informal “assistant supervisory” or “lead” capacity. In addition, the employee may be asked to submit information or ideas on human resources issues.
Materials Responsibility: Limited: The work necessitates limited responsibility for material resources. Resources may include supplies, equipment, stocks, modest budgets, and other similar tangible assets. The employee has limited control over these resources. Errors have a limited cost in terms of damage, waste, and financial loss. Problems with material resources are not complicated. The quantity of resources may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is minimal.
Key Relationships: coworkers/health system employees, outside agencies/other health care providers, the general public/visitors/volunteers, physicians/medical office staff, students/interns/residents/outside instructors, patients, families, and significant others
POSITION SPECIFICATIONS
Education: Associate’s degree.
Field of Study: Nursing
Special training includes basic life support, ACLS within 9 months, and ECG monitoring.
Training preferred: baccalaureate degree in nursing.
Licensure/Registration: Registered Nurse in Illinois; Registered Nurse in Iowa within one year.
No experience is required.
Interpersonal Skills: Interaction occurs with a wide range of persons both inside and outside the organisation. Communication is of moderate difficulty and sensitivity. Contact with others may include complex and lengthy talks and information exchanges. Requires moderate interpersonal skills. Interactions need dealing with fairly complex problem scenarios or uncomfortable confrontations.
Physical demands: Extremely high intensity. Physical labour is a primary requirement of the work. The forces exerted are equivalent to lifting more than fifty pounds. The requirement for physical stamina and endurance is enormous. The level of physical strain generated on the job is really high. It causes significant weariness and necessitates times of relaxation. Work may need considerable muscular control and delicate dexterity, as well as a variety of bodily postures. The position occasionally exceeds these extremely high intensity demands by 10-35% of the time.
Working Conditions: Employees are routinely exposed to extremely poor environmental conditions, which include physical hazards, health and safety risks, and other unwanted qualities. Personal dangers necessitate the use of safety equipment or strict adherence to procedures. The employee’s exposure to these conditions is limited to 70% or less of the workday.
Possible exposure to bloodborne pathogens: Yes