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Annual Salary: $83,200-$89,400 Job Purpose: Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members. Duties: * Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements * Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families * Promote patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions * Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations * Resolve patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies * Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel * Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations * Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records * Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs * Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential  * Ensure operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques * Maintain nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results * Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies * Maintain a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods * Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed Skills/Qualifications: Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance