Job Details
Wage Scale:
$35.31 -$69.47
*This is designated as a safety-sensitive position*
Benefits:
Medical Insurance: PPO, HRA, HDHP offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield
Dental Insurance: Offered through Delta Dental
Vision Insurance: Offered through VSP
Free EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
Paid Time Off (Up to 25 days a year or 200 hours)
Employer Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Coverage options for Medical, Dental and Vision include: Employee, Employee & Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee & Child, Family
Voluntary Benefits:
Health Savings Account
Flex Spending Account: Medical & Dependent
Voluntary Life: including Employee, Spouse/Domestic Partner, and Child
Critical Illness: including Employee & Spouse/Domestic Partner
Hospital Indemnity
Accident Coverage
Identity Theft Protection
Legal Aid
401(k)
- Utilizes the nursing process to plan, provide and evaluate patient care.
- Initial and ongoing patient assessment is performed per hospital/unit standard and patient care needs.
- Individualized Plan of Care is developed, initiated and resolved according to unit standards.
- Delivers nursing care following Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission rules and regulations, current nursing practice standards and hospital policies.
- Does not exceed nursing scope of practice.
- Maintains standards for quality care through:
- Core competencies
- Policies/procedures
- Hospital committees
- Joint Commission standards
- OSHA standards
- WISHA standards
- Department of Health rules and regulations
- Unit standards applicable to each unit
- Safety standards
- Specific professional nursing organization standards
- Administers medication within licensure and TRIOS HEALTH policies.
- Delegates selected nursing functions to others in accordance with their education, credentials, and demonstrated competence.
- Supervises those to whom tasks have been delegated, monitoring for completion and documentation.
- Demonstrates knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span.
- Able to assess patient condition based on age and developmental status.
- Identifies and plans age/development appropriate nursing interventions.
- Implements plans and provides age-appropriate care as described in the department/unit policies and procedures.
- Completes chart documentation on nursing unit as required by hospital standards.
- Participates in hourly rounding in assigned department.
- Consistently ensure necessary consents are obtained for procedures initiated in the unit.
Communicates effectively with patients, families, physicians and hospital personnel, complying with the Hospital s policies and procedures relating to guest relations and staff relationships.
- Accurately reports patient condition to other hospital team members.
- Identifies, reports and documents unsafe practices.
- Accurately communicates in planning and delivering care and discharge with ancillary personnel (i.e. Physical Therapy, Discharge Planner, Home Health, etc.), physician, family and patient.
- Always follows appropriate chain of command.
- Effectively works at establishing a good rapport with hospital personnel and medical staff.
- Consistently maintain operational knowledge of all equipment utilized in the Interventional Pain Medicine (IPM) department. It is the nurse s responsibility to gain the knowledge in all areas of IPM.
- Consistently demonstrate competence in recognizing potential complications and initiation of appropriate corrective measures.
- Consistently ensure necessary consents are obtained for procedures initiated in the unit.
- Consistently maintain working knowledge of procedure cart, crash cart.
- Consistently prepare equipment/supplies and demonstrate competence in assisting with specialized IPM procedures.
- Consistently evaluate equipment function and promptly identify/report malfunctioning equipment to appropriate department.
- Consistently demonstrate competence in basic emergency care nursing skills, and IPM skills.
- Performs skills of IPM nursing that are consistent with professional nursing standards.
- Maintains required certification and education requirements:
- BLS
- ACLS
- Moderate sedation
- Basic Rhythm Interpretation Strongly Recommended
- Understands, sets up and assists in IPM procedures.
- Understands, sets up and assists in peri-operative patient care.
- Understands, sets up and provides conscious sedation to patients.
- This position is located 3730 Plaza Way, Kennewick, WA 99338