Registered Nurse (Peri Op Services)

About This Role

The WMCHealthWorx Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care in various clinical settings throughout the Hudson Valley, within WMCHealth. This role involves assessing patient needs, performing physical examinations, and delivering direct and indirect patient care. The Registered Nurse will also plan, develop, and implement specialized treatment plans while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning and delivery of direct and indirect patient care
• Provide patient centered care to medically complex patients
• Supervise care, treatment, and services of the patient(s)
• Document the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnosis, expected patient outcomes and appropriate nursing interventions
• Maintain confidentiality at all times with patients, medical staff, and co-workers
• Provide a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic patient environment, using empathy
• Adhere to and support the policies, procedures, goals, and objectives of WMCHealth and the local hospital
• Implement physicians' orders, administer medications, start IVs, perform treatments, procedures and special tests
• Assess and evaluate patients' needs for, and responses to, care rendered
• Utilize nursing process, evidenced-based practice, and unit-specific competencies to complete an accurate and timely assessment of the patient's needs

Requirements

• Previous professional nursing experience
• Associate's degree
• Valid license and current registration as a Registered Nurse in New York State
• Current BLS certification

Qualifications

• Associate's degree required, BSN preferred
• Previous professional nursing experience required

Nice to Have

• BSN degree

Certifications