Float RN - Critical Care

Overview

Required skills & experience (the “must haves” to be considered) *Minimum 1 yr RN experience *Minimum 6 months to 1 year of critical care experience (ICU/ED) *Minimum 2 yrs of Tele Experience – critical care experience preferred (ICU or ED) *MA RN License *Education: BSN or currently enrolled in a BSN program *BLS & ACLS certifications via American Heart Association required What you need to know  Documents initial and ongoing patient assessment in a complete, concise, and timely manner according to policy and procedures.  Develops and modifies and effective, comprehensive, and individualized plan of care including discharge planning for assigned patients, utilizing standards of care.  Applies knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served, i.e.: infant pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.  Initiates and coordinates patient teaching according to identified needs.  Integrates, delegates, and coordinates patient care using interdisciplinary approach.  Delegates responsibilities for care, when applicable, and makes assignments according to skills of caregiver.  Evaluates patient responses to interventions according to established policy and procedures.  Demonstrates an ability to plan and supervise other patient caregivers in providing patient care on unit while functioning as a professional role model.  Demonstrates the ability to exercise independent judgment in times of need and emergency situations and evaluates the results of actions taken.  Administers medication and perform treatments, utilizing principles of aseptic technique to assigned patient according to the established policy and procedures.

Benefits

Company

Morton Hospital in Taunton is a 112-bed acute care community hospital serving patients and families in southeastern Massachusetts. In addition to a compassionate and skilled team of physicians & nurses who treat patients like family, we provide comprehensive health care services including emergency care, wound care, state-of-the-art imaging services, and a variety of surgical services including vascular surgery, breast surgery, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and podiatric surgery. Please click here to view a full list of our specialties. We continue to invest in patient care services and programs. In addition to facility renovations and investments in innovative technology and patient care equipment, Morton Hospital recently opened a new, state-of-the-art $25 million Emergency Department. Morton Hospital maintains partnerships with Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Level 1 trauma centers and leading academic medical centers for emergency care. In addition, oncology patients have access to Dana Farber cancer services through the hospital’s affiliation with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. We also offer urgent care services through our partnership with Health Express – located in Raynham, MA.