Registered Nurse ICU

Registered Nurse ICU- Days & Nights- San Antonio, TX

SHIFT: Full-time Nights 7P-7A (rotating weekends)

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse (RN) is the patient and patient's family advocate. The RN consistently applies and utilizes the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients. The RN collaborates with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes. Communicates and utilizes interpersonal skills effectively and role models confidence and professionalism within nursing by active engagement in unit and organizational activities. Demonstrates team work, adaptability, and is a resource person to the patient care team. The RN is accountable for the quality of nursing care services delivered by self or others under their direction in accordance with the Texas Nurse Practice Act, hospital policies, and the Texas Board of Nursing rules for delegated nursing tasks (Chapter 224).

Job Responsibilities

• Assessment: Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
• Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, and formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care. Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.
• Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.

Qualifications

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.

Licensure/Certification/Registration:

• RN License to practice as a professional registered nursing in the state of Texas
• BLS Certification required

Experience/ Skills:

• Minimum of 2-year clinical experience as a licensed RN
• Minimum of 2 years clinical experience in the Intensive Care Unit

General Comments

Additional Information

Nurse to Patient Ratio- 1:3