Registered Nurse - South Street (Observation Unit) - Part Time - 24 Hours - Days

GENERAL SUMMARY

• Provides leadership in the coordination and delivery of quality compassionate patient care.
• Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, to provide, delegate, supervise and document care and teaching of patients and family.
• Effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to health care team.
• Participates in finding solutions for variances from patient goals and ensures implementation of solutions.
• Acts as a patient advocate while utilizing the nursing process to plan, deliver, and evaluate goal focused, individualized, safe, age specific care for all patients including those with complex pathophysiological needs and/or psychosocial needs.

Unit Description:

South street is a 9-bed curtained bay adult only observation unit dedicated to optimizing throughput for the hospital. Our emphasis on teamwork and nursing autonomy is essential to the success of this unit. Like many units, we require staff to work every other weekend and have a rotating holidays requirement as well. The environment does not allow for patients in isolation to be kept over there so we do minimize isolation patients to that area as best as possible. We maintain a collaborative communication with our other Observation unit/CDU. The high patient turnover provides a fast-paced environment and allows for a lot of diversity in patients on the unit. We do not have the highest acuity, but it tends to be comparable to a GPU floor.