Nurse Resident - Fall Grad - Ponca City Med Surg - FT Nights

Join our team as a night shift, full-time, Nurse Resident, at INTEGRIS Health Ponca City, in Ponca City, OK. You may be eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10,000.
Get to Know Your Team

• INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest not-for-profit health system, is seeking a dedicated caregiver to join us in our mission to partner with people to live healthier lives.
• Benefits of being an INTEGRIS Health caregiver include front-loaded PTO, medical benefits through the extensive INTEGRIS Health network, financial assistance for continued education, 24/7 mental health support and more.
• Take the first step toward growing your career by joining us.

Responsibilities

The Nurse Resident's responsibilities include but is are not limited to:

• Personal patient care tasks, such as mouth care, making beds, giving baths, perineal care, hair care, shaving patients, giving backrubs, and emptying bedpans or urinals.
• Assists with patient safety issues such as presence of identification arm band, adherence to patient fall protocol and use of restraints, positioning of patients, promotion of an environment for rest and sleep, reporting of incidents/injury occurrences.
• Performs treatments, which may include urinary catheter care, enema administration, preparation of sitz baths, applying compresses, and assisting with patient ambulation.
• Assists in patient admission by preparing the room, admitting the patient, and preparing for patient discharge.
• Conducts and documents basic diagnostic testing which includes but is not limited to, obtaining vital signs; blood glucose monitoring; 12-Lead EKG; telemetry monitor and pulse oximetry and Doppler.
• Performing selected sterile procedures that include specimen collection, wound care, tracheostomy care and suction, urinary catheterization, and tube feedings.
• May retrieve and transport medications

INTEGRIS Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration regardless of membership in any protected status as defined by applicable state or federal law, including protected veteran or disability status.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION:

• Must be a new graduate or eligible to graduate from an accredited Nursing Program with eligibility to take the NCLEX exam. The maximum time allowed to stay in this role is 6 months or until passing the NCLEX exam on either the 1st or 2nd attempt. The first attempt must be within 90 days after graduation. Demotion to another entry level position will be required if the NCLEX exam is not passed within this time or after the 2nd attempt

LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS:

• BLS (Basic Life Support) Issued by American Red Cross or American Heart Association within 90 days of hire