Intermountain Healthcare
Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA
Job Description:The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.Job EssentialsAssess:Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate).Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.Plan:Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs...