Clinical Nurse I - Med/Surg Ward (Hiring Immediately)

Description**

_**Summary:**_

pediatric patients.

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of

• Patient Care Planning
• Develops a comprehensive nursing care plan which addresses all significant

• Prepares nursing elements of the interdisciplinary care plan prior to the

• Reviews and updates nursing care plan and collaborates with team members as

• Patient Care Provision
• Implements patient care as planned in nursing care plan and

• Sets priorities based on knowledge of patient acuity and patient needs.
• Provides safe and therapeutic care and seeks resources when appropriate.
• Safely performs and accurately documents procedures, consistent with

• Patient Care Evaluation
• Evaluates patient response to interventions and attainment of goals in

• Evaluates progress toward nursing goals and revises goals as needed on a

• Completes nursing progress note for assigned patients on a daily basis.
• Completes nursing flow sheets for assigned patients on a daily basis.
• Teaching
• Evaluates education needs of patient and significant others and documents

• Utilizes, adapts, and revises teaching resources to meet patient education

• Explains procedures, tests, and disease process to patients and families as

• Acts as role model for health care students and other team members.
• Acts as preceptor to assigned orientees.
• Assists in the orientation of new staff by sharing knowledge and experience.
• Patient Care Communication• Reports and documents accurately and concisely

• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Applies basic verbal and nonverbal skills to maintain open, effective

• Encourages direct discussion between staff members when differences occur

• Gives and accepts constructive feedback appropriately.
• Identifies actual and potentially unsafe patient care practices, reports

them in the designated manner, and suggests alternatives.

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

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

• Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members
• Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual

• needs using evidence-based practice. Implements patient care and therapeutic
• procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching

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

• 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 designated units patient population

• Anticipates and plans for admissiondischargetransfer needs to facilitate

• Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the

• Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating

orders to ensure accuracy

• Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a

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

• Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing

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

the industry

• Incorporates patient safety practicesguidelines to promote a safe

• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement

• 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

• Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare related laws and

activities

• Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
• Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational

• Provides feedback for improvement of procedures
• Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures
• Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques

• Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient

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

• Describes the flow of information between various stations or units
• Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic

• Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy
• Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale

across health care practices

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

• Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment

• Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment
• Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order

• Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment

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

• Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate,

• 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

• Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for

• Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts

• 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

• Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or

• Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups

• 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

• Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses,

participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real time

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
• Six months to a year of experience as a licensed RN or holder of an active GN permit
• BLS required
• RN License in state of employment or compact
• Graduate Nurse Permit
• Associates with an unsuccessful licensure application or on the 75th day following the effective date of the temporary permit; will be transferred to another position within CHRISTUS Health

**_Work Schedule:_

TBD

**_Work Type:_

Per Diem As Needed

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