Adult Med Surg Nurse

SALARY RANGE: 78k-115k
Culture
Navitas Healthcare is passionate and hungry to secure and enhance our deliverables within every opportunity. With the expertise we have in staffing and consulting services, we are fully confident in providing temporary staff to perform any service; always being client-centric, solutions minded and putting your patients interest first.

Recognized as a healthcare staffing leader, Navitas Healthcare is with you every step of the way. We excel in the business of human potential, and believe in its power to shape strategic, organizational, economic, societal change, and beyond. At Navitas Healthcare, we bring the perspective, understanding, and hands-on know-how to build the future as YOU see it.

We help clients take care of patients. We help candidates find passionate work. We help give back to the communities. And we deliver it all with expectational customer service.
Responsibilities

• Performs an age specific plan of care for a designated group of patients using the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.
• Collaborates with physicians and other health team members in coordinating and implementing procedures and treatments.
• Uses leadership skills/clinical judgment in coordinating patient care and directing/delegating activities of the patient care unit team.
• Applies warm and cold compresses, consistent with facility procedure; performs irrigations, consistent with Facility procedure; performs other procedures related to skin care, as necessary; administers medications correctly and safely; correctly identifies medication in terms of action, dosage, side effects, and implications for the patient; meets standard on medication administration examination; demonstrates preparation of local solutions.
• Administers and documents medication correctly; educates patients and significant others related to drug and food interactions; educates patients and significant others related to drug and food interactions; participates in patient and family education; provides patient with an explanation of his/her condition as indicated; communicates assessment data in an orderly fashion by recording, updating and verbalizing pertinent information to care team members and to appropriate agencies; recognizes and utilizes health teaching opportunities and resources /materials available for this teaching; provides for early discharge planning and appropriate referrals for post-hospital care; evaluates the effectiveness of teaching by feedback from patient/ family and documents same.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Requirements
Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
COVID-19 Vaccinated
Minimum 2 years experience in a Hospital setting

Equal Opportunity Employer
Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

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