Trauma Nurse

Company: ScionHealth
Location: Orange
Posted on: April 15, 2025

Job Description:

Trauma Nurse at ScionHealth summary:
As a Trauma Nurse at ScionHealth, I provide critical care to chronic and medically complex patients in our subacute unit. I am responsible for developing comprehensive nursing care plans, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and ensuring adherence to hospital policies while documenting patient care accurately. My role emphasizes effective communication with staff and physicians to deliver optimal patient outcomes and facilitate safe transitions during discharge.
Description

$39.28 - $51.30 / hour

ScionHealth is committed to a culture of service excellence as demonstrated by our employees' adherence to the service excellence principles of Pride, Teamwork, Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Fun, Professionalism, and Responsibility.

As our most acute level of care, our specialty hospitals offer the same critical care patients receive in a traditional hospital or intensive care unit, but for an extended recovery period. Our clinicians play a vital role in the recovery process for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients.

As a Registered Nurse / RN within our Subacute Unit you will:

• Provide planning and delivery of direct and indirect patient care through the nursing process of Assessment, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation.
• Develop nursing care plan in coordination with patient, family and interdisciplinary staff as necessary.
• Communicates changes in patient's clinical condition with Physicians, Nursing Supervisor/Manager, and co-workers as appropriate.
• Participate in discharge planning process.
• Maintain the standard of nursing care and implements policies and procedures of the hospital and nursing department.
• Document patient admission assessment and reassessments, patient care plans and other pertinent information, completely in the patient's medical record according to nursing standards and policies.
• Perform assessment on all patients on admission and reassessments as per policy. Makes referrals to other disciplines based on assessment.
• Develop nursing care plan of assigned patient on admission, updates plan of care as needed and ensures plan of care is coordinated with patient, family, and other members of the team. Qualifications
  • Graduation from an accredited Bachelors of Science in Nursing, Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma program.
  • Current state licensure as Registered Nurse.
  • BCLS certification. ACLS preferred.
  • Minimum six months' Medical/Surgical experience in an acute care setting preferred.
    
    Keywords:
    Trauma Nurse, Registered Nurse, critical care, patient care, nursing care plan, medical surgical experience, patient assessment, hospital policies, discharge planning, acute care
    

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