Enfermeiro(a) - UTI Neonatal

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 and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions. • 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 throughout 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.