Registered Nurse

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Location: Auckland

Salary: $42.00 - $48.00 per hour + benefits

Hours: Rotating days and nights, 36 hours per week, every other weekend

Contract: Contract

Our owner started the agency in 1975 after caring for a parent at home. Clients live in Auckland and the surrounding towns, usually within 25 minutes of the office. Founded in 1975, we now have 17 employees. Paid training covers CPR, dementia care and safe transfers.

The position

We are looking for a Registered Nurse who is comfortable with a full patient load and wants a unit that actually staffs to ratio. The work is on site and cannot be done remotely.

Responsibilities

Start and maintain peripheral IVs, and manage central lines, PICCs and drains. Administer medications, IV fluids and blood products per policy and provider orders. Monitor vital signs, telemetry and lab results, and escalate changes to the provider or rapid response team. Assess, plan and document care for an assigned group of patients each shift. Chart assessments, interventions and I&O in Epic or Cerner in real time. Coordinate discharge planning with case management, PT/OT and pharmacy.

Required qualifications

3-5 years of acute care experience preferred; new grads considered for the residency program. Comfortable with an EHR and barcode medication administration. Clear communication with patients, families and the care team. Ability to stand and walk for most of a 12-hour shift and lift or reposition patients with assistance. Willing to rotate holidays and work every third weekend.

What you get

Paid training.

You must have the right to work in New Zealand.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Auckland Senior Care Limited.