RN, Registered Nurse - Beeville, United States - CHRISTUS Health

Description

Summary:

The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.

The Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum and Nursery (LDRPN) family centered unit in Beeville, Texas is comprised of nine LDRPN rooms, nestled within the unit is one Surgical Suite and a PACU. In this department you will have the opportunity to practice the Labor, Delivery, Recover , Postpartum and well Newborn nursing model hand in hand in with nurses who have over 100 years combined. You will have the opportunity to care for patients through all stages of the childbearing experience as well as their newborns. Many of the women who choose to deliver at our facility have had multiple children with us over the years and we have become familiar with these families from our community, attesting to the definition of community nursing experience.

Since we are part of a larger heath care system and have access to our sister tertiary care center in Corpus Christi and San Antonio, you will have a higher level of care to refer compromised newborns in order to provide excellent continued care. Our physicians and Certified Nurse Anesthetists are very special to our unit. We have a variety of experience with our team and they are wonderful to work with and truly have compassion for the staff, patient and community and do an outstanding job. Our camaraderie with our physician and ancillary staff is unsurpassed. We all work well together to meet our goals.

If you are looking to join a rapidly growing faith-based organization that encourages professional development, we want you to become a part of the CHRISTUS Spohn family

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.

• Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients

• Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice

• Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed

• Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given

• Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

• Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural,

• Spiritual, and development needs of patient and families

• Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members

• Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.

• Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals

• Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).

• Performs timely reassessment and documentation

• Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process

• Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow

• Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process

• Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III. Unit Operations

• Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift

• Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies

• Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.

• Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

• Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes

• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities

• Provides evidence-based nursing care

• Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

• Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.

• Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards

• Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures

• Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance

• Provides feedback for improvement of procedures

• Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures

• Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques
Health Information Documentation

• Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation

• Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records

• Describes the flow of information between various stations or units

• Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation

• Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy

• Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment

• Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility

• Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems

• Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment

• Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety

• Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment
Medical Order Processing

• Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions

• Describes functions and features of the system use