Acute Care RN - Staffing Office Nursing - Covenant Children's Hospital - Acute Care
Company: Covenant Medical Center
Location: Lubbock
Posted on: March 17, 2023
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Job Description:
Acute Care RN - Staffing Office Nursing - Covenant Children's
HospitalCovenant Health is seeking an Full Time, Night Shift
Registered Nurse (RN) II for the Staffing Office Nursing at
Covenant Children's Hospital.
$15,000 Hiring Bonus for eligible external candidates who meet all
conditions for payment - this is in addition to the fantastic
benefits and compensation package offered by Providence that begin
on your first day of employment.
Job Summary:
The RN independently uses the nursing process to safely,
therapeutically and efficiently care for a group of patients. Uses
information from a variety of sources to assess, plan, implement,
identify outcomes and evaluate patient's plan of care.
Essential Functions:
* COLLABORATION: The process whereby the health care team plan and
practice together as colleagues, working interdependently within
the boundaries of their scope of practices using shared values and
mutual respect for each other's contribution to care for
individuals, their families and communities. Major elements include
non-hierarchal relationships and intra-inter professional
collegiality
* Facilitate patient care through developing and maintaining
therapeutic & effective communication/ relationships with
patient/family and the health care team:
* Recognize and communicates patient condition/care changes to
charge nurse, supervisor, medical staff and other team members
within an appropriate time frame; completes bedside shift report
and documentation in a timely manner
* Anticipate and is prepared to present information to patients and
families regarding plan of care
* Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of chain of command
* Participate in staff meetings by constructively communicating
issues and offering solutions that affect the unit
* Promote collaborative and caring relationships with colleagues
that contribute to teamwork and respects culturally diverse
individuals and viewpoints
* Seek assistance and support in unfamiliar clinical situations and
utilizes the guidance of mentors
* Demonstrate professional behavior with patients/families and
healthcare team, treating others with dignity and respect according
to CHS values
* Participate in shared governance and participative leadership,
including appropriate delegation of care:
* Appropriately delegates, supervises, and evaluates abilities and
performance of other team members. Identifies and communicates
opportunities for improved team performance
* Include patient/family in implementing the plan of care based
upon their ability to participate in and make decisions regarding
care
* Demonstrate awareness of competency, job description and scope of
practice of patient care team members when delegating aspects of
care
* Participate and follows through with unit/service level shared
governance activities
* Verbalize and supports unit goals
* Demonstrate awareness of unit/service budget and guidelines
related to staffing and scheduling:
* Demonstrate efficient use of time, equipment and supplies
* Provide input for capital budget
* Follow scheduling guidelines and demonstrates flexibility in
order to meet unit and patient needs
* CLINICAL PRACTICE: The practitioner is accountable to recognize
the health and quality of life needs of the patient, family and
community and to collaborate with them to achieve mutually agreed
upon goals. The practitioner utilizes his/her specialized skills
and scientific knowledge to design collaborative and integrated
care that binds together all resources in a goal oriented movement
toward health. Components of clinical practice are competence,
evidenced based practice/continuous quality improvement, advanced
practice nursing and practice standards
* Implement safe and therapeutic care for patients and provides a
safe environment specific to age and development of the patient
population served:
* Adhere to all safety policies and procedures; identifies safety
issues or hazards in the work environment and communicates
deficiencies appropriately
* Implement a safe and therapeutic plan of care for patients of
minimal complexity according to the hospital's policies and
procedures
* Request assistance from mentor, resource nurse or team leaders
when essential care cannot be completed
* Provide ongoing teaching to patient/family regarding testing,
treatment and procedures
* Recognize and responds to priorities in meeting patient care
responsibilities; detects obvious changes in patient's condition.
Incorporates clinical findings into priority setting
* Include patient and family in implementing a culturally sensitive
plan based upon their ability to participate and make decisions
regarding care
* Assist in creating an environment that promotes educational
growth opportunities for peers and develops ongoing plan for
self-development:
* Recognize and verbalizes own learning needs
* Participate in learning activities to obtain skills that meet
gaps between desired and actual performance
* In collaboration with manager/mentor, develops plan for meeting
learning needs during orientation and on an ongoing basis
* Provide and receives constructive feedback to/from team
members
* Share new ideas/information attained from attending educational
opportunities
* Assure quality through application of evidenced-based practice to
policy, procedure, standards of care, clinical pathways and
protocol changes:
* Follow policy, procedure, standards of care, and protocol changes
common to patient population
* Participate in performance improvement activities as directed
* Demonstrate accountability for apprising self of posted policies,
procedures, standards of care, clinical pathways and protocol
changes
* Maintain clinical competence:
* Maintain knowledge of Nurse Practice Act
* Demonstrate and maintains competence in required hospital wide
and service specific competency programs
* Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care
appropriate to the age of the patients served including knowledge
of the principles of growth and development, psychosocial
characteristics, and interventions for age-specific requirements of
the assigned unit
* Utilize nursing process to perform a comprehensive, age-specific
assessment of patient & family needs, including identification of
formal teaching needs for specific patients/families and
communities:
* Demonstrate the ability to assess and prioritize the cultural,
physical, psychosocial, and spiritual patient/family needs
* Utilize resources: e.g., Advanced Practice Nurses, literature,
etc. when caring for patients with unfamiliar diagnoses
* Assess patient's needs and conditions at regular intervals as
defined in unit standards of care, including hourly rounding
* Utilize screening tools to identify the need for
interdisciplinary assessment
* Assess needs, preferred learning style and barriers (i.e.
cultural, psychomotor) to patient and family education
* Reinforce established education plan
* Identify teaching goals with patient and family and provides
teaching based on documented learning needs
* Educate patient/family about their plan of care across the
continuum, including post-hospitalization self-care and consult for
appropriate resources
* Utilize nursing process to develop/revise plan of care and
evaluates patient progress toward expected outcomes:
* Utilize interdisciplinary assessment data to develop/contribute
to plan of care
* Evaluate the patient's progress toward attaining expected
outcomes in a systematic, ongoing, and culturally sensitive
criterion-based manner and revises plan of care
* Be responsible for accurate, complete, and individualized
documentation of patient assessment, goals, plan of care,
interventions and care provided, as well as patient's progress
toward discharge goals
* CULTURE & CARING: The central theme of the CHS Practice Model is
the caring relationship that exists between the patient/family and
nurse. Caring practices are activities that are responsive to the
uniqueness of the patient/family and that create a compassionate
and therapeutic environment. Holistic practice addresses physical,
emotional, spiritual, cognitive and developmental needs of patients
and families across the life span. Care for the body, mind and
spirit - from birth to final stage of life - is a desired
characteristic of professional practice. Culture is a collection of
traditions, beliefs, values and behaviors that make up the context
for how care is delivered. Culture forms and develops over time.
The desired culture supports and values are:
* Innovative and improvement, openness, risk taking, integrity,
trust and mutual respect
* A nursing code of ethics which is securely integrated into day to
day activities
* Interdisciplinary collaboration
* Advancement of nursing practice
* Reward and recognition for professional achievements
* Demonstrate commitment toward patient advocacy, customer
satisfaction, and a culture based on innovation, openness,
integrity, trust and mutual respect while maintaining ethical
standards. Cross reference the Values Based Competencies:
* Demonstrate behaviors reflective of caring and concern for
customer satisfaction, i.e. advocacy, listening, compassion,
comfort, honor and respect, follow through on customer requests
* Identify opportunities for improvement in customer
satisfaction
* Seek assistance as needed to advocate for the patient and
family
* Demonstrate actions that support philosophy of family centered
care
* Serve as a resource for patient advocacy initiatives such as
restraint use, spirituality, pain management
* Demonstrate the values of dignity and justice by assuring respect
for privacy and confidentiality and participation by the
patient/families in decisions regarding care; complies with the
patient's bill of rights and the patient's advanced directive
* Verbalize knowledge of "staff rights" policy and Ethics
Guidelines
* Recognize and reports incompetent/unsafe/unethical care
practices
Required qualifications:
* Required upon hire: Texas Registered Nurse License (Vendor
Managed) Or
* Required upon hire: New Mexico Registered Nurse License (Vendor
Managed)
* Required upon hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart
Association (Vendor Managed)
* Required upon hire: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
Certificate - NIH Stroke Scale Training Course or within 90 days of
hire
* Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
* 1 year Nursing experience
Keywords: Covenant Medical Center, Lubbock , Acute Care RN - Staffing Office Nursing - Covenant Children's Hospital - Acute Care, Administration, Clerical , Lubbock, Texas
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