Description
Description SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Are you looking for a work environment as a Med/Surg
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!
Med/Surg
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:
- 35-bed
Med Surg unit that cares for General Medical and Stroke patients
- 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
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