RN - ICU

Details

Client Name
Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee

Job Type
Permanent

Offering
Nursing

Profession
RN

Specialty
ICU

Job ID
20076007


Shift Details

Shift
07:00 PM - 07:00 AM

Scheduled Hours
36


Job Order Details

Start Date
04/07/2025


Job Description
Job Summary:
The Registered Nurse I assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.


Job Responsibilities:
-Utilizes the nursing process to care for patients.
-Assesses, organizes, and completes patient care with consideration for patient age, cultural and psychosocial factors.
-Documents steps of the nursing process.
-Utilizes proper medical terminology.
-Addresses problems and progress toward goals.
-Facilitates patient discharge through timely, appropriate referrals and utilization of patient education resources, suitable to patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
-Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.
-Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities as evidenced by attending in-services, meeting unit education standards, and completing variance reports.
-Independent judgment in planning sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
-Works directly with patients and/or customers.
-Works with internal customers via telephone or face to face interaction.
-Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.


Required Skills & Experience:
-Must have at least one year of experience in PCU/ICU high acuity/critical environment (NOT ER expeience)
-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.
-Ability to be detail oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.


Required Education:
-ADN or ASN degree.


Required Certification & Licensure:
-Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
-BLS


More about the Job:
• 24-bed medical/surgical/cardiovascular ICU
• Soon to transition into new 30-bed ICU tower
• Intensivist coverage
• Average daily census - 17
• Nurse : patient ratio 1:1, 1:2, or 1:3 based on acuity

UNIT GOALS
• To provide quality patient care through focus on patient and caregiver engagement and a collaborative multidisciplinary team approach.
• To assist the patient in reaching an optimal level of functioning by the process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• To actively participate in safety initiatives and quality processes that result in safer, higher quality care.
• To focus on Key Drivers for Patient Satisfaction, Nurse Sensitive Indicators including pain/skin management, fall injury prevention, infection prevention, implementation of goal-driven action plans, and recruitment/retention of talent.
• To provide ongoing education opportunities for nursing staff to increase value to the system as a whole.

ASSESSMENT METHODS / PROCESSES:

Care provided, but not limited to: The registered nurse must plan, direct, and evaluate the care of the patient. He/She provides nursing care through assessment, reassessment of multi-systems, falls management, restraints management, infection control, IV administration (peripheral and central lines, IV starts and restarts), medication administration (including titration of vasoactive drugs, cardiac medications, insulin drips, narcotics and neuromuscular blockades). Pain management (including PCA medication). Patient/family education, wound and skin management, assistance with ADL's, nutritional and functional assessments, ventilator support, administration of blood and blood products, cardiac monitoring, hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy, continuous electroencephalogram, and moderate/deep sedation. Hospice and comfort measures may be provided to patients when death is imminent, or a general nursing unit bed is not available.
Tests / Assessments: blood glucose monitoring, pulse oximetry, bladder scanning and telemetry. Assist with procedures (thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, chest tube insertion, central line placement)
Support Services: Care Management, Pastoral care, Infection Control, Nutrition/Food services, Dietitian, Multidisciplinary Collaboration Team, Volunteer Services, Environmental Services, Laboratory (including blood bank), physical medicine, respiratory therapy, pharmacy services, Renal dialysis, Education, Security

Client Details

Address
300 Edna M. Rockefeller Drive

City
Muskogee

State
OK

Zip Code
74401