Job Summary
The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.
Job Responsibilities
- Utilizes the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.
- Completes assessment and individualizes plan of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
- Carries out nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients.
- Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
- Anticipates patient/unit needs.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.
- Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.
- Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
- Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.
- Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.
- Utilizes correct medical terminology abbreviations.
- Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
- Facilitates patient teaching discharge.
- Makes timely, appropriate referrals.
- Utilizes resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
- Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.
- Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities.
- Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.
- Accurately completes variance reports.
- Decision Making: Independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
- Working Relationship: Works directly with patients and/or customers.
- Works with internal/external customers.
- Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.
Required Skills & Experience
- Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
- Epic experience.
- Working knowledge of disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
- Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
- Ability to be detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.
Required Education
Completion of basic professional curriculum of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.
Required Certification & Licensure
- Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
- BLS, ACLS, NIHSS.
Shift Requirements
- 1 year of experience.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
- BLS certified through AHA.
Start Requirements
- Cardiac Critical Care / Hemodynamic Monitoring.
- Cardiac ICU Experience.
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.
- Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (IABP, Impella, ECMO).
- NIHSS is preferred.
- Swan-Ganz Catheter.
