Description
Description SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Do you have a passion for healthcare
and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered
environment? Jump-start your career in our Pediatric ICU at Rapides Regional Medical
Center. Submit your application today!
Our nursing teams are a committed,
caring group of colleagues. We have a passion for creating positive patient
interactions. If you are dedicated to caring for the well-being of others, this
could be your next opportunity. We want your knowledge and expertise!
Benefits:
We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive
salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our
team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k,
PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement,
employee discount program, and employee stock purchase program. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.
About Us:
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.
At
Rapides Regional we believe that well-defined values are the key to nurturing
staff and patient satisfaction. By joining our team you contribute to the
positive culture of the hospital, which directly impacts the well-being of your
patients, their families, your colleagues, and your own personal job
satisfaction. We invite you to learn firsthand what our unwavering commitment
to patient satisfaction, service excellence and professional expertise can do
for your career
Thinking
of relocating to peaceful Alexandria, La? Check out all there is to do:
Seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to work in the Pediatric ICU (PICU) to serve as the leader of the Nursing Care team who
is ultimately responsible and accountable to the patient for the assessment,
planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient focused, outcome oriented
care. Will develop competencies for
functioning safely in all areas of Pediatric/PICU Services. Nursing plan of care will include newborns
and adolescents.
What you will do in
this role:
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, social worker, 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, and adolescent. 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
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