Registered Nurse

Job Summary

The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care by utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures. The focus is on monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize the nursing process to care for patients, considering patient age, cultural, and psychosocial factors.
• Document steps of the nursing process using proper medical terminology; address problems and progress toward goals.
• Facilitate patient discharge through timely, appropriate referrals and utilization of patient education resources, suitable to patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
• Collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate; support unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities by attending in-services, meeting unit education standards, and completing variance reports.

Decision Making

• Exercise independent judgment in making decisions from many diversified alternatives that are subject to general review in final stages only.

Working Relationship

• Coordinate activities of others (does not supervise) and lead others in the same work performed (does not supervise).
• Provide input on performance evaluations but do not prepare or give them.
• Work directly with patients and/or customers, as well as internal and external customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and staff, frequently interacting with individuals at Director level or above.

Required Skills & Experience

• Up to six (6) months of related experience.
• Working knowledge of general 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.

Schedule Notes

• Location: Vinita, OK - Experience the charm of a rural community with a strong sense of community and easy access to beautiful natural surroundings.
• Schedule: Nights 7p-7a, 2 x12
• Relocation assistance provided for those moving from 71 miles
• No sign-on bonus.
• Rural Hospital - need to be flexible with schedule.