Job Summary:
The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance 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 ages of individual patients.
- Organize, prioritize, and perform nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
- Anticipate patient/unit needs.
- Demonstrate sound knowledge in bio-psychosocial areas.
- Delegate and communicate effectively and appropriately.
- Demonstrate professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
- Document steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.
- Record data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.
- Utilize correct medical terminology abbreviations.
- Address problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
- Facilitate patient teaching and discharge.
- 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 PI and educational activities.
- Attend mandatory in-services and meet unit education standards.
- Accurately complete variance reports.
- Exercise independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
- Work directly with patients and/or customers.
- Collaborate with internal/external customers and other healthcare professionals and staff.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
- 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 in an effective and efficient manner.
- Detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.
Required Education:
Completion of basic professional curriculum of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.
Required Certification & Licensure:
Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
Additional Requirements:
- BLS through AHA
- Epic Experience
- Minimum 2 years of experience
- NIHSS