Staff Nurse - On Call - Chemo Infusion - Kona

This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.

Job Summary:

Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities:

Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill.
Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.
Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
Takes charge duties as assigned.
Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.
Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

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