Clinical Resource Nurse - MedSurg

About the role

The Clinical Resource Nurse - MedSurg position at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is responsible for providing advanced assessment skills, coordinating patient care, and serving as a subject matter expert consultant to interprofessional teams. This role requires a minimum of three years of direct clinical nursing experience in an acute care or specialty setting, with leadership, charge, or coordinator experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops strong relationships with physicians and healthcare providers to ensure effective communication in patient care.
• Serves as a liaison between ancillary departments, clinicians, physicians, and patients to ensure efficient patient flow for service line patients.
• Functions as a subject matter expert consultant to interprofessional team members through provision of advanced assessment skills for care.
• Serves as a patient advocate in preventing/resolving ethical issues and facilitating interventions to relieve patient/family spiritual distress.
• Contributes to improving nurse satisfaction/engagement by serving as a role model and mentor, coaching staff in effective verbal, non-verbal, and written communication.

Requirements

• EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited school of nursing.
• EXPERIENCE: Three years experience with direct clinical nursing patient care in an acute care or specialty setting; leadership, charge, or coordinator experience.

Qualifications

• LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS: Required - RN - Registered Nurse - Texas State Licensure - Texas Board of Nursing_PSV Compact Licensure – Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days (if establishing Texas residency); BLS - Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association; Magnet-ANCC recognized certification (HM) within 1 year.

Skills

Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.

Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security.

Able to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles.

Strong psychosocial assessment and clinical skills.

Demonstrates an effective community resource knowledge base and the judgment/ability to effectively select and coordinate available resources, including referrals to regulatory agencies.

Embodies the behaviors associated with the Leadership, Art and Science of Nursing (identified in Duties and Responsibilities) at the Proficient level according to Benner’s model of clinical practice.

Able to work independently; possess organization/time management and prioritization skills.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.

Supplemental Requirements

• WORK ATTIRE: Uniform: No, Scrubs: Yes, Business professional: Yes, Other (department approved): No.
• On Call*: Yes.
• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area: Yes.
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area: No.

Company Profile

Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is a Magnet-recognized, not-for-profit, faith-based hospital that serves the growing Northwest Houston community. We are committed to providing quality, cost-effective health care in a compassionate environment for a full range of services, including emergency care, cardiology, orthopedics and sports medicine, comprehensive women’s services, neurology and neurosurgery, oncology, and primary and general medicine.

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.