Jobs Description
Role: Registered Nurse (RN) Type of Position: Contract to Hire. Location: Fort Worth, TX 76107 Work Schedules: • Night nurse to cover the Wednesday night shifts with some flexibility to pick up extra night shifts as needed OR a Day nurse who would work 3 12-hour shifts (Saturday and Sunday plus one other day) Dress code: Scrubs
Responsibilities
- 1. Direct Nursing Treatments: dressing changes, injections, medications, tube feedings, nursing education of home care staff of how to provide care for the clients.
- 2. Medication Reconciliation: work with the pharmacy to ensure the following: current physician orders; medication administration record development or that it matches orders; medications match orders and Medication administration record.
- 3. Documentation: Use computers and mobile documentation devices that require a high level of competency - laptops; Microsoft Word and Excel; Lippincott, Framelink and other web-based documentation systems. Create folders and organize electronic charting forms.
- 4. Afterhours Calls: All nurses who work Mon-Fri are required to take one week of afterhours calls every 8-9 weeks. This includes answering the afterhours phone calls from home, which entails giving triage advice or authorizing medications. You are paid by the hour, so you would be compensated through your hourly rate for time spent working on calls, or the hours are flexed the next day to ensure you do not work more than 40 hours/week.
Qualifications
- • Experience as a Registered Nurse; specifically 1 year inpatient mental health or 1 year inpatient med/surg or higher acuity
- • Experience in nursing assessment
- • Experience in case management and care
- • Experience entering data into laptops and typing proficiency
- • Experience using Microsoft Word & Excel
- • Experience using web-based EHR documentation systems