RN - Urgent Care

Nemours is seek an RN in Glen Mills, PA

The Urgent Care Registered nurse is a member of the leadership team, overseeing and supporting, the Urgent care clinical team and is accountable for daily shift operations.

Practice of professional nursing means the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgement, and nursing skill based upon applied principles of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences which shall include, but not be limited to:


* (a)The observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured, or infirm; and the promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness of others.


* (b)The administration of medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized by the laws of this state to prescribe such medications and treatments.


* (c)The supervision and teaching of other personnel in the theory and performance of any of the acts.

Essential Functions:

The Registered Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.

Provide cross coverage to other Urgent Care locations in the Delaware Valley when necessary.

Clinical Judgment


* Utilize and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.


* Recognize and respond to the dynamic situation while sorting out extraneous detail and exercises clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the patient population of the assigned clinical area.


* Collect and interpret complex patient data with clinical events to make clinical decisions to meet individual patient and family needs.


* Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, proactively seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians, as appropriate, while using evidence-based guidelines.

Clinical Inquiry


* Utilizes and contributes to evidence-based practice

Caring Practices


* Determines and prioritizes the patients nursing care needs and maintains responsibility for directing aspects of care which are delegated to patient care team member .


* Initiates, implements, and evaluates standards of care based on identified patient .


* Consistently shows empathy, sensitivity and insight and is able to intervene in stressful situations .


* Perform triage and discharge.


* Obtain and perform lab tests on patient specimens.


* Intravenous, intramuscular, venipunctures and catheterizations as per protocol and provider order.


* Administer medications.


* Perform and assist with splinting and procedures.


* Follow orders per provider and company protocol, in a timely fashion with professionalism, courtesy, competence and accuracy.


* Prioritizes patients based on acuity


* Discharges patient/family providing written and verbal instructions...