Description
Description SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Are you looking for a work environment as an
Ortho/Neuro/Trauma Registered Nurse where diversity and inclusion thrive?
Submit your application with Rapides
Regional Medical Center today and find out what
it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.
We are committed
to providing our employees with the support they need. At Rapides Regional we offer an array of
medical, dental, and vision packages as well as several add-on perks to make
your benefits package truly customizable to you and your family needs. Some of
our unique benefits
we offer include:
- Tuition
Reimbursement/Assistance Programs
- Paid
Personal Leave
- 401k
(100% annual match – 3%-9% of pay based on years of service)
- Identity
Theft Protection discounts
- Auto,
Home, and Life Insurance options
- Adoption
Assistance
- Employee
Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
We are
seeking a Registered Nurse for our center to ensure that we continue to provide
all patients with high quality, efficient care.
Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team
that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition
like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply now!
Ortho/Neuro/Trauma
nurses are the master coordinators of the unit, juggling care for their patients
while keeping the entire health care team on the same page. They have
high-level critical thinking skills, vast clinical knowledge, and are able to
stay calm under pressure.
About this unit:
- 36-bed unit caring for Ortho/Neuro/Trauma
patients
- Teamwork centered atmosphere
- Consecutively earning the Unit of Distinction
(UOD) award
- Patient safety
and satisfaction are our number one priority
Responsibilities:
- Through assessment
of the patient’s physical, nutritional, psychosocial, spiritual,
emotional, cultural, educational, and rehabilitative needs, problems are
identified and documented in the clinical record and communicated to the
physician, case manager, and ancillary departments when appropriate
- Appropriate
standards of care, care plans, and interventions are initiated,
professionally modified, and communicated to the patient and other members
of the healthcare team
- Able to
demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on
physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria
appropriate to the following age groups: pediatric, children,
adolescent, adult, geriatric
- Provides
patient/family health education that promotes healthy behaviors, supports
recovery, and enables the patient/family to be involved in decisions about
their own care
- The patient’s
responses to interventions and progress toward desired outcomes are
assessed, re-assessed, evaluated, and documented in the clinical record
- Patient care
activities are coordinated through collaboration and planning with other
members of the healthcare team
- Physicians’ orders
are carried out accurately and efficiently, and clarified when necessary
- Adverse or sudden
changes in the patient’s conditions are promptly communicated to the
physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and/or family with specific
and pertinent data
- Able to identify
potential or actual victims of abuse and understands the proper reporting
mechanism
- Able to recognize
adverse drug reactions and demonstrates understanding of proper reporting
mechanism once reaction is identified
- Appropriately
assesses the patient’s pain and involves the patient in effective
management of that pain using appropriate interventions
- Able to
demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for administration of blood
and blood products and appropriately monitors the patient receiving
blood/blood products for any transfusion reaction; takes proper measures
once a reaction is recognized
- Patient care
equipment is utilized safely and efficiently in accordance with hospital
policies and procedures
- Standard
precautions are promoted and followed in the utilization of principles of
infection control in patient care
- Achieves stated
goals related to job performance
Qualifications - Graduate of a Nursing Program from an accredited school
- Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in
the State of Louisiana
- CPR for Healthcare Providers to be completed within 30
days of hire
- ACLS to be completed within 30 days of hire
Rapides Regional
Medical Center is an award-winning 350+ bed hospital and ER in Alexandria,
Louisiana that offers a wide array of services ranging from Cancer Care to
Wound Care, and our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical
specialties.
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