RN, Registered Nurse - Ldrpn - Alice now Offering A $10k Sign-On Bonus
Company: Christus Health
Location: Alice
Posted on: March 9, 2025
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Job Description:
Description
Now Offering a $10K Sign-on Bonus for this position!
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.
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Alice - a Texas Ten Steps Designated
Facility - Women's Services is comprised of Registered Nurses,
License Vocational Nurses and OB scrub techs. We deliver excellent
care to our soon-to-be moms, laboring moms, delivering moms and new
moms, and help them prepare for the most exciting experience of
being a new mom or new parents. As a team this is our second
family. We depend on each other in a lot of things to cover the
needs of our department. As a team we are committed to train and
nurture you to be part of our team and our second family.
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 used to enter,
validate, update and forward medical orders
--- Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for
correcting
--- Explains considerations for entering and following standing
orders
--- Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders
and considerations for each
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
--- Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient
charts for patients on unit and under own care
--- Reviews patients' charts for completion and accuracy;
identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions
--- Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical
staff
--- Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and
lessons learned
--- Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with
others
Patient Safety
--- Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient
groups or settings
--- Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for
those groups and settings
--- Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and
family members
--- Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs
of problems
--- Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to
self, versus harm to others
--- Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near
misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and
reporting in real-time.
Requirements:
Experience:
7AM - 7PM
Work Type:
Full Time
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