Description
Description SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Are
you looking for a work environment as a Telemetry/Renal 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)
The Life of an HCA
Nurse
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!
Telemetry/Renal 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 Telemetry/Renal unit that cares for
patients with PICC line removals, dialysis treatment, and various kidney
related diseases
- Teamwork is the core of how we operate
- Engagement of Leadership – Everyone on
the team is motivated and patient focused
- 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
- Educational
attendance records reveal attendance at all required educational
programs/in-services
Qualifications
- Graduate of a Nursing Program
from an accredited school
- Currently licensed to practice
as a Registered Nurse in the State of Louisiana or valid compact license
from permanent state of residence
- CPR for Healthcare Providers to
be completed within 30 days of hire
- ACLS to be completed within 30 days
of hire
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