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RN, Registered Nurse Float - Sulphur Springs Emergency Care Center - Sulphur Springs Texas
Company: Christus Health Location: Sulphur Springs, Texas
Posted On: 04/26/2024
Description 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. 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 COMPETENCIESStandard 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 COMPETENCIESClinical 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. 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