RN job in Winnsboro TX

Job Description:

• Responsible for patient assessment, patient care planning, and provision of quality nursing care to an assigned group of patients for a defined work period.
• Provides direction and supervision to LVN/LPNs, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, and other clinical/clerical associates.
• May function as a charge nurse for the unit.
• Involves provision of patient care/service to older adolescents, young adults, adults, geriatric, and pediatric patients.

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Develops a comprehensive nursing care plan addressing all significant needs and problems identified through nursing assessment.
• Prepares nursing elements of the interdisciplinary care plan prior to the initial team conference.
• Reviews and updates nursing care plan and collaborates with team members as changes occur.
• Implements patient care as planned in nursing care plan and interdisciplinary care plan.
• Sets priorities based on knowledge of patient acuity and patient needs.
• Provides safe and therapeutic care and seeks resources when appropriate.
• Safely performs and accurately documents procedures, consistent with established nursing policy and procedure.
• Evaluates patient response to interventions and attainment of goals in collaboration with interdisciplinary team.
• Evaluates progress toward nursing goals and revises goals as needed on a weekly basis.
• Completes nursing progress note and nursing flow sheets for assigned patients on a daily basis.
• Evaluates education needs of patient and significant others and documents their response to teaching.
• Utilizes, adapts, and revises teaching resources to meet patient education needs.
• Explains procedures, tests, and disease process to patients and families as needed.
• Acts as a role model for healthcare students and other team members.
• Acts as preceptor to assigned orientees.
• Assists in the orientation of new staff by sharing knowledge and experience.
• Reports and documents accurately and concisely to appropriate persons the patient's condition.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Applies basic verbal and nonverbal skills to maintain open, effective communication among care team members, patients, and significant others.
• Encourages direct discussion between staff members when differences occur and seeks assistance to arbitrate differences as needed.
• Gives and accepts constructive feedback appropriately.
• Identifies actual and potentially unsafe patient care practices, reports them in the designated manner, and suggests alternatives.

Core Competencies:

• Utilizes 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 designated unit's patient population.

Technical Competencies:

• 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.

Job Requirements:

• Education/Skills:
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred.
• Experience:
  • Six months to a year of experience as a licensed RN or holder of an active GN permit.
• Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:
  • BLS required.
  • RN License in state of employment or compact.