Medical Unit Graduate Nurse - Dallas, TX, United States - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Description

RN Float - Med/Surg Nights 10k BONUS

Registered Nurse - Float Pool Level 3 Med/Surg
$10,000 Bonus Nights

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion.

As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees.

Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S News & World Report, we invite you to continue your nursing career with us at our Magnet-Designated hospital, William P.

University Hospital (CUH).

The inpatient Float Pool team is comprised of highly-skilled Registered Nurses (RN) and Patient Care Technicians (PCTs) with the ability to provide high quality care to our patients and families in a variety of clinical areas.

Clements and Zale Lipshy University Hospitals. Highly-skilled and specialized care is essential to the UT Southwestern mission of quality in patient care, education, and research.

Our mission, as a float pool, is to partner with inpatient units to create supportive staffing solutions to meet the demands of our University Hospitals and patients' needs, while providing continuity of care in a safe environment.

Our vision is to provide flexible and supportive staffing solutions in alignment with the UT Southwestern mission.
Graduate of accredited nursing program
Performs and documents physical, psychosocial, and emotional assessments.

Anticipates patient's and/or patient\s family's needs and expectations and utilizes them in conjunction with assessment to develop appropriate plan of care for patient.

Maintains and utilizes competencies per unit expectation.
Identifies and implements appropriate nursing interventions based on assessment. Coordinates interdisciplinary plan of care.

Confers with all members of health care team in collaborative fashion, sharing information and observations of patient and/or family in manner that contributes to optimal patient care.

Prioritizes nursing interventions based upon assessment. Identifies changes in condition as evidenced by nursing assessment, labs, x-rays, etc. Evaluates implemented interventions and modifies care according to evaluation. Documents interventions and modifications to plan of care.

Adheres to appropriate hospital and/or Department of Nursing policies, procedures, clinical pathways and nationally accepted standards of nursing practice while delivering nursing care to patients.

Suggests practices to enhance nursing care based on current literature and research. Demonstrates effective communication with children, adolescents, adults and older adults. Welcomes and orients patient and family to unit. Encourages patient and family participation in care. Reviews plan of care with patient and family. Provides supervision of and direction to unlicensed support personnel and nurses new to environment. Delegates duties within legal para- meters.
Responds to patient's and/or patient's family's complaints to Clinical Nurse Manager or their designee. Participates in performance improvement activities as directed. Attends at least 80% of scheduled staff meetings and 100% of mandatory educational sessions.
UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community.

As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.