Registered Nurse (RN) - Rehab

Tenet Healthcare; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenet Healthcare seeks an RN for night shift to provide direct clinical patient care to assigned patients per shift, coordinating care with a focus on safety and quality. The role reports to nursing leadership and supports unit operations and resource management.

The RN administers medications safely, follows hospital policies, and ensures adherence to infection control standards, with emphasis on high-quality, cost-effective patient care and clinical staff competency.

Qualifications

• Provide direct clinical patient care per shift.
• Administer medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy.
• Maintain safety, risk management, quality improvement and infection control standards.

Responsibilities

• Supervise staff to which appropriate care is delegated.
• Support CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care and resource management.
• Coordinate and plan patient care within prescribed medical regime.

Skills

Direct clinical patient care

Patient care coordination

Education

Graduated from a state approved school of nursing or an accredited school

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing (preferred)

Job description

Job Shift: Night

Job Type: Full Time

The role provides direct clinical patient care. The role will assume responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and unit level. The role is responsible for supervision of staff to which appropriate care is delegated. The role is accountable to support CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

The RN provides high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to all patients. The RN assumes responsibility for overall coordination and integration of patient care based on the nursing process. The RN directs care according to established standards of safety, risk management, QI, and Infection Control, with the goal being to discharge the patient with an optimum level of care provided. Assumes responsibility for coordination and planning of patient care within the prescribed medical regime. Administers all medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy. Performs and fulfills all HICS (hospital incident command system) responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed by the facility in times of emergency and/or disaster. Responsible for knowing the Hospital's emergency codes, including the purpose and appropriate action for each, and adheres to the Hospital policies and procedures for each emergency code.

Education:

• Required: Graduated from a state approved school of nursing or an accredited school.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing.

Experience:

• Preferred: Recent acute care experience.

Certifications:

• Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; CPR. AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.