Job Details
Job Location: Summit Medical Center - Edmond, OK 73013
Position Type: PRN
Job Shift: Night (as needed)
Position Summary
Provides professional nursing care for assigned patients in medical and/or surgical units according to established procedures.
Responsibilities
- Orients, instructs, and trains assigned personnel.
- Cooperates with other personnel to achieve department objectives and maintain good employee relations as well as interdepartmental objectives.
- Performs a variety of nursing administrative duties.
- Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required, and adjusts nursing care processes to ensure optimal patient care.
- Prepares patients for scheduled procedures to assist in patient assessment.
- Monitors medical condition of patients and reports changes to appropriate personnel.
- Demonstrates sensitivity to patients’ comfort and privacy and expresses interest in their progress.
- Assists physicians with examinations, procedures and other processes related to direct patient care.
- Writes initial nursing histories, assesses patients’ conditions, and develops individual care plans for patients assigned to the unit.
- Assists attending physicians as needed.
- Maintains a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with hospital standards.
- Consistently completes required number of charts audits each month.
- Performs other nursing duties as assigned or requested.
- Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and proper functioning of equipment.
- Maintains established center/departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Inspects area daily for compliance with policies, procedures, regulations and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur.
- Attends meetings as required.
- Maintains confidentiality of patient and center related business.
- Develops and maintains an effective working relationship with patients, families and visitors.
- Documents concisely, precisely and accurately on all medical records or documents as indicated by policy. Maintains all required reports, records, statistics, etc.
- Participates in quality assessment activities as directed for the continuous improvement of patient care and center business.
- Understands and maintains clinical competencies (general, age specific and drug administration).
Qualifications
- Associate degree.
- Current Registered Nurse licensure in the state of Oklahoma.
- Sufficient previous clinical experience in medical and surgical nursing.
- CPR certification.
- Current BLS certification; ACLS required within one year of employment.
- ICU and/or ER experience.
Special Skills and Knowledge
- Nursing care of the postoperative patient.
- Operation of vital signs monitors.
- Assessment skills.
- IV therapy.
- Principles of standard precaution.
- Performs yearly glucometer competency.
Essential Functions
- Ability to adequately assess, diagnose, plan and implement nursing interventions and evaluate patient condition.
- Compliance with the attendance policy.
- Compliance with continuing and mandatory education programs.
- Possesses appropriate communication skills to practice collaborative nursing.
- Ability to respond quickly, physically and mentally when priorities and/or the patient’s condition changes.
Physical/Mental Requirements
- Ability to read and write legibly.
- Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to understand and resolve simple to complex problems.
- Ability to understand simple to complex instructions.
- Ability to constantly walk, stand, and/or lift.
- Ability to frequently utilize full range of motion, including crouching, stooping, reaching, bending and twisting.
- Ability to frequently lift, pull, push with assistance of one other person, the weight of the average patient.
- Ability to see and hear and distinguish color.
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
- Ability to function independently without constant supervision.
Bloodborne Pathogen Classification
Category 1 – Occupational exposure