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JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title: Registered Nurse(ICU/CCU)
Duration: 3+ Months
Location: Philadelphia, PA 19107

Job Description:

· Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
· Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
· Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
· Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
· Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
· Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure that proper nursing care is provided.
· Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
· Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
· Provide health care, first aid, immunizations and assistance in convalescence and rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, and industry.
· Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
· Assess the needs of individuals, families and/or communities, including assessment of individuals' home and/or work environments to identify potential health or safety problems.
· Conduct specified laboratory tests.
· Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues and concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
· Direct and supervise less skilled nursing/health care personnel, or supervise a particular unit on one shift.
· Hand items to surgeons during operations.
· Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention and childbirth, and develop health improvement programs.
· Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
· Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
· Provide or arrange for training/instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
· Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
· Work with individuals, groups, and families to plan and implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
· Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, and other anesthetics.
· Contract independently to render nursing care, usually to one patient, in hospital or private home.
· Deliver infants and provide prenatal and postpartum care and treatment under obstetrician's supervision.
· Direct and coordinate infection control programs, advising and consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
· Engage in research activities related to nursing.
· Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
· Perform administrative and managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, and long-range goals.
· Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.

Required:
• *BLS, ACLS required ASAP”