RN - Critical Care Float Pool

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary:
The Registered Nurse 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 in caring for assigned patients.
-Completes assessment and individualizes plan of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.
-Carries out nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients.
-Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.
-Anticipates patient/unit needs.
-Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.
-Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.
-Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
-Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.
-Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.
-Utilizes correct medical terminology abbreviations.
-Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.
-Facilitates patient teaching discharge.
-Makes timely, appropriate referrals.
-Utilizes resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
-Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.
-Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities.
-Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.
-Accurately completes variance reports.
-Decision Making: Independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.
-Working Relationship: Works directly with patients and/or customers.
-Works with internal/external customers.
-Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.

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Required Skills & Experience:
-Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.
-Epic 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.
-Ability to be detail oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
-N/A

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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.

Preferred Education:
-N/A

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

Preferred Certification & Licensure:
-N/A

Must Have

• 1 year of experience
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• BLS certified through AHA

Nice To Have

• Cardiac Critical Care / Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Cardiac ICU Experience
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
• Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (IABP, Impella, ECMO)
• NIHSS is preferred
• Swan-Ganz Catheter

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