Job Summary:
The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care. This role involves utilizing the nursing process in line with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures to monitor and evaluate patient functional status.
Job Responsibilities:
- Utilize the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.
- Complete assessments and individualize plans of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
- Provide nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and patient age.
- Organize, prioritize, and perform nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
- Anticipate patient/unit needs.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge base in bio-psychosocial aspects.
- Delegate and communicate effectively and appropriately.
- Exercise professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
- Document steps of the nursing process/care accurately and legibly on the appropriate record.
- Utilize correct medical terminology and abbreviations.
- Address problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
- Facilitate patient teaching and discharge processes.
- Make timely, appropriate referrals.
- Utilize resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
- Collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate.
- Support unit/hospital goals through performance improvement and educational activities.
- Attend mandatory in-services and meet unit education standards.
- Accurately complete variance reports.
- Exercise independent judgment in planning operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
- Maintain working relationships directly with patients and/or customers, as well as with internal/external customers and other healthcare professionals and staff.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
- Experience with electronic health records systems.
- 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 effectively and efficiently.
- Detail-oriented in examining clinical and numerical data.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Additional experience with electronic health records systems.
Required Education:
- Completion of a basic professional curriculum from an accredited school of nursing, as approved and verified by a state board of nursing, with eligibility for a diploma or degree.
Required Certification & Licensure:
- Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and proof of instruction/passage of Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring.