Travel Home Health Registered Nurse

Company: University of North Carolina Health Care System -
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: January 9, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Certification Details - BLS - North Carolina RN License Job Details - Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. - Responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting. - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. - Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. - Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population with assistance. - Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. - Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn. - Identifies expected patient outcomes and seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. - Participates in discussion with interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. - Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care. - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. - Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. - Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. - Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. - Consults with appropriate resources regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning. - Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations with assistance. - Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. - Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. - Effectively uses communication systems. - Participates in promoting cost-effective care. - Gives feedback to co-workers. - Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. - Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all. - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care including physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. - Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. - Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. - Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs. - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. - Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. - Uses full range of communication as a means to convey planning. - Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. - Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems. - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. - Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability. Job Requirements - One (1) year of nursing experience caring for acute and chronically ill patients. - Nursing Diploma OR ADN or ASN from an accredited school of Nursing. - Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina. Schedule Information - Contract length is 13 weeks.

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