Description
Registered Nurse- Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Work Location: Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point, NY
Eagle Health is seeking a highly qualified professional to join our team in support of a government customer.
Core Duties:
- Coordinate patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals
- Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality, and cost effectiveness
- Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all DHA and MTF established policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Perform physical exam and health histories
- Provide health promotions, counseling, and education
- Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized nursing-based interventions
- Direct and supervise care provided by other healthcare professionals
- Accountable for making patient care assignments based on the scope of practice and skill level of assigned personnel
- Complete all administrative daily assignments/duties as outlined by department leadership
- Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations
- Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization
- Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as appropriate
- Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes
- Documentation processing and attending to patient care comply with The Joint Commission (TJC) guidelines
- Review, understand, and comply with established medical record procedures, regulations, and principles to carry out a variety of medical record functions such as compiling data, analysis, coding, and quality assurance
- Comply with DHA and local hospital policies for maintaining a file system and updating records, which requires keeping weekly lists of all records and retiring records annually
- Comply with DHA and MTF documentation requirements and policies regarding the release of information to outside agencies; prepare correspondence and summaries to a variety of requestors, such as the Veterans Administration Hospitals, Social Security Administration, and Insurance Companies. Employee must abide by the Privacy Act to determine what types of patient information can be released
- Comply with DHA and MTF policy for return of records to the app
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