RN, Registered Nurse - Cardiac
Company: CHRISTUS Health
Location: Tyler
Posted on: November 4, 2024
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Job Description:
Job DescriptionDescriptionSummary: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-timeRequirements:
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