Registered Nurse - AAC Acute Care (3K) - Temple, Texas - Acute Care

Company: Central Texas Veterans Health Care System - Olin E
Location: Temple
Posted on: August 3, 2022

Job Description:

Registered Nurse - AAC Acute Care (3K) - Temple, Texas
Duties

The Acute Care nurse is required to work and support multiple inpatient areas within the medical center as staffing and patient acuity needs acutely arise. Duties include, but not limited to: Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychologic and cognitive status, analyzing patient care and bringing problems to resolution. Anticipating and implementing preventive patient care measures. Demonstrating knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to adult and geriatric patients in the medicine/telemetry environment. Possessing the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpreting the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs. Performs documentation duties on the floor and in the patient record, which is timely, accurate and concise, Works as part of a team in delivering patient care, Establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available center resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies, and functions as a Charge Nurse and/or preceptor as required.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Nights, Weekends and Holidays; Rotating Shifts of 0730-1600, 0730-2000, 1130-2400, 1530-2400, 2330-0800, 1930-0800
Compressed/Flexible: Available
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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