Job Description
This nursing role in the emergency room assesses patient symptoms and prioritizes care to stabilize urgent medical conditions. Patients gain from triage that determines treatment order, aiding physicians in delivering timely interventions for complaints ranging from wound care to cardiac monitoring.
Ally Medical provides professional nursing care in emergency settings. The organization focuses on evaluating medical symptoms and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to restore patient health.
Functions encompass direct patient care, assisting physicians during exams and procedures, performing IV therapy, blood draws, cardiac monitoring, oxygen application, wound cleaning, splint placement, life-threatening condition treatment, head-to-toe assessments including pediatrics, geriatrics, and general populations. Duties extend to medication administration, documentation in medical records, and discharge reviews with vital signs check. Work involves prolonged periods of standing, bending, reaching, lifting up to 50 pounds, sitting at desks, and using computers.
No compensation details provided. Position operates on PRN basis in medical office environments. Schedule details vary with standing orders. Benefits not specified in the application, but roles include compliance with privacy laws, security protocols, and annual information security training.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care by evaluating medical complaints and reporting to physician
- Assist physicians during exams, procedures, diagnostic testing, and treatments
- Perform IV initiation, blood draws, cardiac monitoring, oxygen application, nebulized treatment, wound cleaning, bandaging, splinting
- Recognize and treat life-threatening conditions
- Perform head-to-toe assessments on all patients including pediatrics, adolescents, geriatrics
- Assist physicians with procedures like laceration repair, moderate sedation, incision drainage, cardiac arrest, intubation, chest tube insertion, foreign body removal, birth recording, death reporting
- Prepare and administer medications ordered by physician and record in medical record
- Review discharge instructions with patients and take vital signs prior to discharge
- Record all patient medical care information accurately and submit to front desk
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Two years of registered nurse and/or emergency room nursing experience
- Current RN license within the state of practice
- CPR/BLS Certification
- ACLS Certification
- PALS Certification