Valley RN

is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Travel to satellite clinics, when needed.

Quality of Care

• Participates in QA tool development.
• Collects QA data as indicated.
• Identifies trends in patient care outcomes for QA monitoring or staff education.
• Participates in clinical research following specific protocols.
• Ensures safe care by using assertive interactions with the health care team.

Assessment and Monitoring

• Performs initial and focused assessment.
• Recognizes and reports actual and potential health problems.
• Reports pertinent patient response to interventions.
• Modifies plan of care based on patient assessment.
• Uses chain of command to obtain appropriate health care response as an advocate for the patient.

Professional Work Role/Leadership

• Demonstrates flexibility in staffing and scheduling to meet unit needs.
• Prioritizes plans organizes and directs care of assigned patients.
• Identifies team conflict and helps to initiate resolution.
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks guidance.
• Supports goals through participation and compliance in unit activities and decision-making.

Therapeutic Interventions

• Administers medications per clinical guidelines, recognizes abnormal responses to medication therapy and initiates corrective therapy.
• Develops, implements, and individualized plan of care to meet patient needs and diagnoses.
• Intervenes appropriately after correlating clinical picture to therapeutic treatment plan.
• Selects and utilizes appropriate equipment, devices, and supplies based on patient needs and treatment plan.

Crisis Management

• Identifies critical changes in patient’s condition and follows through with appropriate actions.
• Ensures the correct functioning of emergency equipment identifies deficits and follows through.
• Assists with changes in unit needs during a crisis situation.
• Re-established unit function after a crisis situation.
• Participates in review of unit response to crisis situation.

Helping/Teaching

• Identifies barrier to learning, develops and implements discharge plan based on patient/family needs.
• Incorporates cultural aspects of illness/hospitalization for patient/family into the plan of care.
• Established and maintains a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
• Decreases apprehension and anxiety using individualized interventions to ensure patient comfort dignity.
• Functions as a patient/family advocate seeking direction as needed to provide safe, effective, efficient, and timely care.

Education and/or Experience

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Current RN license in the State of Texas or Compact State
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in hospital surgery or outpatient surgery, Pediatric preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations.

• Licensed in State of Texas as an RN
• Certification in specialty preferred