Registered Nurse (RN), Telemetry, Staffing Center

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

General Summary

The Clinical Nurse II (Per Diem and LTA), is responsible for providing direct and indirect patient and family care in inpatient and approved surgical and ambulatory care areas.  The nurse is expected to competently perform the patient care responsibilities of the registered nurse within the assigned work setting.  The nurse delegates and supervises care in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act and the professional nursing role.  Care is provided in collaboration with other members of the clinical team, and with the use of critical pathways or multidisciplinary plans of care.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The Clinical Nurse II systematically collects and assesses data in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to provide therapeutic care for the patient and family.  The nurse follows the prescribed plan of care and documents the progress towards achieving defined outcomes.  Continuity in patient care is achieved through concise communication with the Charge Nurse or Unit manager.  The following are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

Clinical Practice :

• Demonstrates the ability to provide nursing care relative to the patient’s age specific needs.

Elicits patient and family participation in care in keeping with physiological and psychological readiness.

Service / Quality :

Unit Operations :

Professional Development :

Patient Safety

Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiatives.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

License and Certification

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)

Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation :  Flat Rate $55 / hr

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