RN - Renal Unit

RN - Renal Unit

Olathe Health Pavilion is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team. The RN utilizes the nursing process to coordinate the interdisciplinary approach to patient care, providing safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. This role integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families through the continuum of care.

Job Description

• Collaborate with others to integrate assessment and input of the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team.
• Ensure improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning.
• Provide direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serving as a resource, preceptor, and mentor.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in decision-making and problem-solving.
• Integrate and communicate knowledge and sensitivity to patients' psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and age-specific needs.
• Practice within the boundaries of the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, specialty standards, and organizational/departmental policies and procedures.
• Consistently meet work schedule.
• Demonstrate critical thinking utilizing all aspects of the nursing process.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients.
• Coordinate health care services with hospitals, vendors, physician's offices, and other institutions.
• Answer patient/significant others' phone calls, evaluate patients' needs, and triage patient care.
• Provide patient/family education using available resources.
• Act as a liaison between patients, significant others, and health team members.
• Identify areas for professional growth.
• Participate fully as a member of the Patient Centered Medical Home Team.
• Independently perform a comprehensive assessment to provide the most effective patient care for a given population.
• Anticipate and intervene in an appropriate and timely manner when there are concerns related to patient and staff safety.
• Communicate appropriately when interacting with patients, family members, nurses, and other medical professionals.
• Adhere to hospital policies related to medication safety, including order writing format, correct administration considerations, double checks, and other established policies and practices.
• Accurately assess patients'/families' readiness to learn, organize and execute an individualized teaching plan, evaluate patients' understanding using teach-back methods; modify approach as necessary.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate a plan of care that recognizes changes in the patient's condition and adapts the plan as needed.
• Delegate appropriately according to task situation and level of expertise while functioning as an independent and supportive team member.
• Take a leadership role in building and maintaining an environment where all team members thrive.
• Utilize technology correctly for functions related to patient care delivery, mandatory programs/competencies, and policies/procedures.
• Seek out additional learning experiences within the practice area such as unit-specific certifications, consultation with experts, inservices/rounds, and collaborating with the multidisciplinary team.
• Consistently role model individualized therapeutic communication based on patient and family psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural needs.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Associate Degree in Nursing
• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing (Kansas) or compact license
• CPR/AED/BLS - Other BLS within 14 days
• Some units may require additional unit-specific affirmations/certifications/work experience

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status, or genetic information.