Registered Nurse - L&D

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care. This role involves utilizing the nursing process in line with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures to monitor and evaluate patient functional status.

Job Responsibilities:

• Utilize the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.
• Complete assessments and individualize plans of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
• Provide nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and patient age.
• Organize, prioritize, and perform nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
• Anticipate patient/unit needs.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge base in bio-psychosocial aspects.
• Delegate and communicate effectively and appropriately.
• Exercise professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
• Document steps of the nursing process/care accurately and legibly on the appropriate record.
• Utilize correct medical terminology and abbreviations.
• Address problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
• Facilitate patient teaching and discharge processes.
• Make timely, appropriate referrals.
• Utilize resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
• Collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate.
• Support unit/hospital goals through performance improvement and educational activities.
• Attend mandatory in-services and meet unit education standards.
• Accurately complete variance reports.
• Exercise independent judgment in planning operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
• Maintain working relationships directly with patients and/or customers, as well as with internal/external customers and other healthcare professionals and staff.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
• Experience with electronic health records systems.
• Working knowledge of disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
• Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work effectively and efficiently.
• Detail-oriented in examining clinical and numerical data.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Additional experience with electronic health records systems.

Required Education:

• Completion of a basic professional curriculum from an accredited school of nursing, as approved and verified by a state board of nursing, with eligibility for a diploma or degree.

Required Certification & Licensure:

• Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
• Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and proof of instruction/passage of Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring.