Registered Nurse
Company: Providence Health & Services
Location: Lubbock
Posted on: August 5, 2022
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Job Description:
Covenant Health is seeking an Full-time, Night Shift Registered
Nurse II with the Staffing Office-Nrsg Department at Covenant
Children's Hospital. Apply Today! Applicants that meet
qualifications will receive a text with some additional questions
from our Modern Hire system. 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. * Facilitates patient care through developing and
maintaining therapeutic & effective communication/ relationships
with patient/family and the health care team: Recognizes 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. Anticipates and is prepared to
present information to patients and families regarding plan of
care. Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate use of chain of
command. Participates in staff meetings by constructively
communicating issues and offering solutions that affect the unit.
Promotes collaborative and caring relationships with colleagues
that contribute to teamwork and respects culturally diverse
individuals and viewpoints. Seeks assistance and support in
unfamiliar clinical situations and utilizes the guidance of
mentors. Demonstrates professional behavior with patients/families
and healthcare team, treating others with dignity and respect
according to CHS values. * Participates 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. Includes
patient/family in implementing the plan of care based upon their
ability to participate in and make decisions regarding care.
Demonstrates awareness of competency, job description and scope of
practice of patient care team members when delegating aspects of
care. Participates and follows through with unit/service level
shared governance activities. Verbalizes and supports unit goals. *
Demonstrates awareness of unit/service budget and guidelines
related to staffing and scheduling: Demonstrates efficient use of
time, equipment and supplies. Provides input for capital budget.
Follows 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. * Implements safe and therapeutic care for patients and
provides a safe environment specific to age and development of the
patient population served: Adheres to all safety policies and
procedures; identifies safety issues or hazards in the work
environment and communicates deficiencies appropriately. Implements
a safe and therapeutic plan of care for patients of minimal
complexity according to the hospital's policies and procedures.
Requests assistance from mentor, resource nurse or team leaders
when essential care cannot be completed. Provides ongoing teaching
to patient/family regarding testing, treatment and procedures.
Recognizes and responds to priorities in meeting patient care
responsibilities; detects obvious changes in patient's condition.
Incorporates clinical findings into priority setting. Includes
patient and family in implementing a culturally sensitive plan
based upon their ability to participate and make decisions
regarding care. * Assists in creating an environment that promotes
educational growth opportunities for peers and develops ongoing
plan for self-development: Recognizes and verbalizes own learning
needs. Participates 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. Provides and receives
constructive feedback to/from team members. Shares new
ideas/information attained from attending educational
opportunities. * Assures quality through application of
evidenced-based practice to policy, procedure, standards of care,
clinical pathways and protocol changes: Follows policy, procedure,
standards of care, and protocol changes common to patient
population. Participates in performance improvement activities as
directed. Demonstrates accountability for apprising self of posted
policies, procedures, standards of care, clinical pathways and
protocol changes. * Maintains clinical competence: Maintains
knowledge of Nurse Practice Act. Demonstrates and maintains
competence in required hospital wide and service specific
competency programs. Demonstrates 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. * Utilizes 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: Demonstrates
the ability to assess and prioritize the cultural, physical,
psychosocial, and spiritual patient/family needs. Utilizes
resources: e.g., Advanced Practice Nurses, literature, etc. when
caring for patients with unfamiliar diagnoses. Assesses patient's
needs and conditions at regular intervals as defined in unit
standards of care, including hourly rounding. Utilizes screening
tools to identify the need for interdisciplinary assessment.
Assesses needs, preferred learning style and barriers (i.e.
cultural, psychomotor) to patient and family education. Reinforces
established education plan. Identifies teaching goals with patient
and family and provides teaching based on documented learning
needs. Educates patient/family about their plan of care across the
continuum, including post-hospitalization self-care and consult for
appropriate resources. * Utilizes nursing process to develop/revise
plan of care and evaluates patient progress toward expected
outcomes: Utilizes interdisciplinary assessment data to
develop/contribute to plan of care. Evaluates the patient's
progress toward attaining expected outcomes in a systematic,
ongoing, and culturally sensitive criterion-based manner and
revises plan of care. 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. * Demonstrates 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:
Demonstrates behaviors reflective of caring and concern for
customer satisfaction, i.e. advocacy, listening, compassion,
comfort, honor and respect, follow through on customer requests.
Identifies opportunities for improvement in customer satisfaction.
Seeks assistance as needed to advocate for the patient and family.
Demonstrates actions that support philosophy of family centered
care. Serves as a resource for patient advocacy initiatives such as
restraint use, spirituality, pain management. Demonstrates 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. Verbalizes knowledge
of "staff rights" policy and Ethics Guidelines. Recognizes and
reports incompetent/unsafe/unethical care practices. Minimum
Position Qualifications: Education:
Keywords: Providence Health & Services, Lubbock , Registered Nurse , Human Resources , Lubbock, Texas
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