Dialysis Nurse

Job Summary As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Responsibilities Assessment: Performs admission and ongoing assessment, meeting patients' physical, psychological and spiritual needs and notifying the doctor of changes. Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient. Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications. Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs. Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's acuity. Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location. Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately. Job Requirements Associates Degree in Nursing or Diploma and at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire. Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) within 2 years from date of hire (current employees grandfathered before July 2020). Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire. Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire. Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 days. Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), upon hire. Where You'll Work St. Luke’s Health-Memorial paves the way for quality innovative health care in East Texas and provides more than a quarter of a million patient services each year. With hospitals in Lufkin, Livingston and San Augustine, St. Luke’s Health-Memorial provides millions of dollars in charity care and community support each year. Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to help others—with a patient-first mindset. Keen assessment skills, critical thinking, and a sense of urgency support your career advancement and you thrive in a fast-paced clinical environment where you will rarely experience the same day twice. Benefits While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, and adoption assistance. Pay Range $28.50 - $43.46 /hour #J-18808-Ljbffr