Registered Nurse - Gastroenterology

Military Health Research Foundation; Killeen (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Military Health Research Foundation (MHRF) at Fort Hood is seeking a skilled Registered Nurse (RN) with Gastroenterology experience to support care across multispecialty clinical settings. Responsibilities include patient assessment, medication administration, procedure assistance, and accurate documentation in the electronic health record.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on nursing experience, strong clinical judgment, and teamwork with physicians and multidisciplinary staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care with a wide array of healthcare professionals to achieve optimal clinical outcomes.
• Perform physical exams and health histories.
• Administer medications, wound care, and other interventions as prescribed.
• Direct and supervise care provided by other healthcare professionals.
• Triage and respond to emergencies and adverse signs.
• Document care accurately in the electronic health record.
• Make referrals and arrange specialty follow-up as appropriate.
• Educate patients on health maintenance, procedures, and self-care.
• Assess psychosocial and cultural factors affecting care and coping mechanisms.

Job description

Overview

Military & Health Research Foundation (MHRF) is seeking a skilled Registered Nurse (RN) candidates, skilled in Gastroenterology for a position at Ft Hood medical center. This role will support high-quality patient care across multispecialty clinical settings by assessing patients, administering medications and treatments, coordinating referrals, assisting with procedures, and documenting care accurately in the electronic health record.

The ideal candidate will bring recent hands-on nursing experience, sound clinical judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, providers, and multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should be comfortable working flexible shifts based on mission needs, including possible days, evenings, nights, weekends, training holidays, and federal holidays.

This opportunity is well suited for a dependable RN who values patient-centered care, professionalism, continuity of care, and service in a mission-focused military treatment facility.

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals. Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the MTF.
• Perform physical exam and health histories.
• Provide health promotions, counseling, and education.
• Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized interventions.
• Direct and supervise care provided by other healthcare professionals.
• Accountable for making patient care assignments based on the scope of practice and skill level of assigned personnel.
• Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
• Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
• Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as appropriate.
• Perform nursing services identified in the TO.
• Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes.
• Performs independent, comprehensive telephone, clinical triaging, and
• facilitate care throughout multidisciplinary locations.
• Acts as relief nurse, triages, and screens walk-in patients to assess the severity of the patient’s condition and need for provider intervention.
• Communicate with other providers regarding determinations and situations relating to direct patient care.
• Screens patient charts to assess medical history to determine health care needs.
• Makes psychosocial assessment of patients to identify significant cultural practices, ability to understand and cooperate, and expectations of care and coping mechanisms.
• Executes and/or ensures the completion of orders from health care providers.
• Recognizes and reports abnormal test results, changes in symptoms, and the need for follow-up.
• Records required data in patient charts.
• Assists health care providers with examinations and procedures.
• Responsible for educating patients for high risk, painful, or stressful procedures with education and support.
• Monitors or ensure the monitoring of patients pre, during, and postprocedures per CRDAMC MTF guidelines.
• Assess post-procedure patients prior to their release from the clinic.
• Monitors patients pre, during, and post procedures. Assess postprocedures prior to release from clinic.
• Prepares and administers oral, subcutaneous, intra-muscular, and intravenous medications.
• Complete thorough and accurate documentation, within established guidelines, for all patient care and procedures.
• Demonstrates and instructs patients on the proper administration self-medicated prescriptions.
• Educate patients and ensure distributed instructions are understood for maintenance of health and self-care. Provides clinic one-on-one patient orientation and educational activities related to acute and/or chronic illnesses, self-care, wellness and/or preventive health measures, normal development, and physiology.
• Assesses patients’ emotional, cognitive, social, and motivational status relative to education and determines patients and/or family educational needs and priorities.