**Job Title:** Registered Nurse
**Job Specialty:** PCU
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** Straight nights (3x12s)
**Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week
**Experience:** Minimum of 2 years
**License:** Registered Nurse license from the North Dakota Board of Nursing or Compact State Agreement
**Certifications:**
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 90 days of start
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 6 months of start
- Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) preferred
**Must-Have:**
- Unencumbered nursing license prior to start
- Temporary RN license accepted before the start
- ND RN Graduate Work Authorization considered before the start
**Job Description:**
- Provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Maintain knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served.
- Facilitate the coordination of patient care within the interdisciplinary care team.
- Provide patient education to assure safe patient discharge.
- Perform daily rounds on all patients to ensure quality customer service by addressing unmet needs.
- Develop a care plan based on assessments that consider the patient's physical, psychological, social, educational, developmental, and rehabilitative needs.
- Assess the patient's condition and nursing needs, set goals, and prescribe appropriate nursing actions, including discharge planning.
- Promptly assess, intervene, and reassess the patient's self-report/symptoms of pain and take appropriate action.
- Identify early warning signs of a change in a patient's condition and respond appropriately.
- Assist with or institute emergency measures for sudden adverse developments in patient conditions.
- Report pertinent observations and reactions regarding patients to the appropriate multidisciplinary team member and record these observations accurately.
- Ensure that interventions or referrals are made promptly.
- Complete and submit all incident reports (patient, visitor, staff) prior to the end of each shift.
- Establish and maintain communication and utilize educational opportunities with patients and other significant individuals.
- Begin discharge planning, appropriate education, and counseling based on identified needs to optimize patient/family understanding as early as possible.
- Evaluate and document according to standard operating procedure.
- Assign or delegate nursing interventions to others based on scope of practice, education, and experience.
- Perform other duties as assigned or needed to meet department/organization needs.