RN / LPN | Practice Registered Nurse | Internal Medicine | Full Time | Day | $3K Sign on Bonus - Concord Hospital

Summary

Join our team at Concord Hospital Internal Medicine - Laconia as a Registered Nurse! We offer an opportunity to provide expert care in internal medicine, diagnosing and managing acute and chronic medical problems, arranging testing, prescribing medications, and making referrals to specialists when necessary. Reporting to the Clinical Leader or Clinical Manager, you will deliver high-quality patient care, assess health status, interpret clinical data, and engage in caring relationships with patients and their families. If you’re ready to make a difference in patient outcomes and work collaboratively with a dedicated healthcare team, apply now to be part of our team!

Education

Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license

Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers

Experience

Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multi-disciplinary staff, patients, and others.

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.

• Triages patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patient's health problems or concerns, and providing quality patient care.

• Administers prescribed medications.

• Provides education to patients in response to identified patient needs.

• Documents health information, interventions, and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.

• Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task, person, direction, circumstance, and

  supervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) and

  providing feedback to delegatee and manager.

• Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical judgment and decisions.

• Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do repetitive motion, hear, and speak. The employee is frequently required to bend, do fine motor, reach, sit, stand, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to climb, kneel, smell, and squat.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to bloodborne pathogens, bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne pathogens, electrical hazards - shock, toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.