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Nurse (Clinical/Ambulatory)
Military Treatment Facilities under DHA · Posted 52 days ago
About the Role
About the Position This position is located within the Gastroenterology Service, Tacoma, Washington. The incumbent provides nursing care to patients with complex gastrointestinal disorders. Serve as a rotating on-call nurse staff for various weekdays and the occasional weekend for the MTF, to include maximum of a 45 minute recall/report time. Daily work schedule Monday- Friday 0730-1600 This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Relocation or Recruitment incentives May be authorized .
What You'll Do
- →Promote a multi-disciplinary environment to ensure a safe patient care environment is maintained, including comprehensive knowledge of the inpatient environment.
- →Deliver expert nursing care to patients with complex conditions in both outpatient clinic settings and critical care units within the hospital.
- →Educate patients and their significant others on different medical conditions and underlying disease processes, promoting understanding and informed participation in care Perform targeted patient assessments to ensure admit criteria has been met for the scheduled endoscopy procedure and sedation level.
- →Perform targeted patient assessments to ensure sedation level is appropriate to the type of sedation ordered/consented.
- →Operate and maintain specialized equipment, including advanced endoscopy equipment, endoscope automatic re-processor and telemetry monitors.
- →Document comprehensively within the patient chart (endoscopy software and local Electronic Health Record), including systematic audits.
- →Perform care across the outpatient and inpatient continuum, serving as a resource nurse for the gastroenterology and anesthesia team, as needed.
- →Assist the physician with diagnostic and therapeutic EGDs, colonoscopies, flexible sigmoidoscopies, ERCPs, EUS, biliary stents, stricture dilations, and foreign body removals.
- →Perform interventions to ensure airway and hemodynamic stability including intravenous medications, fluid resuscitation and airway maintenance.
- →Provide post-procedure recovery care to patients.
- →Additional requirements may be determined as positions arise and will be communicated during the hiring process if you are selected.
Requirements
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓Foreign Degree: A degree from a Foreign Nursing School.
- ✓Official certification from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools is required for individuals who graduated from foreign nursing schools: https://www.cgfns.org/
Personality Fit
Job ID: 190edf55-5d71-46d8-9b00-89793345b705
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