Registered Nurse 2- NEUROLOGY (NIGHTS)

About the Role

Coordinates and delivers patient care using the health care team philosophy practice model. Coordinates and provides patient teaching and discharge planning. Coordinates activities with ancillary departments while maintaining departmental and hospital standards.

Responsibilities

Organizational Expectations

• Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
• Promotes a culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention.
• Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet patient environment to enhance patient care experience.
• Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope of job role or practice.
• Adheres to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities.
• Maintains compliance with organization’s policies, established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards.
• Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service through attitude and actions, consistent with the organization’s Vision, Mission, and Values.
• Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and TJC standards or other accrediting bodies.

Essential Functions

• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing functions of patients on the unit.
• Initiates and implements patient care plans.
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to the skill level of employees.
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care.
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to solutions.
• Creates a working climate that provides growth and job satisfaction for personnel.
• Accurately and promptly implements physicians' orders.
• Administers medications and intravenous solutions skillfully and correctly.
• Maintains standards of accurate and complete recording and reporting.
• Arranges for needed supplies and equipment to be on hand.
• Participates in planning changes and improvements.
• Participates in hospital safety programs.
• Supports and enforces infection-control policies and procedures.
• Remains resourceful and calm in emergencies.
• Participates in orientation and in-service training for personnel.
• Participates in unit and department performance improvement plans.
• Assists in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Maintains and respects patients' privacy by keeping confidentiality of all related information.
• Displays concern and initiative.
• Observes and supports hospital policy.
• Is prompt and efficient with minimal absences.
• Cooperates and maintains good rapport with nursing staff, medical staff, other departments, and visitors.

Functional Demands

• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty.
• Lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds with or without assistance.
• Transferring and repositioning patients.
• Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching for patient care functions.
• Visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties.
• Optimal auditory acuity required.
• Manual dexterity involving handling equipment, instruments, or needles.
• Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests.
• Physical conditions are clean, neat, and well-lit; may be subjected to unpleasant sights and odors, stressful situations, and hazardous or infectious agents.
• Climate control and ambient temperature variances may be experienced.
• Exposure to limited amounts of hazardous chemicals or substances and infectious disease processes is possible.
• Hours of duty may be irregular or unexpectedly extended due to emergency circumstances.
• Direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply; personal protective equipment is provided and must be worn.

Requirements

• One year of experience as an RN.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize patients' individual needs based on medical conditions, age (adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, and geriatric), limitations, and planned procedures.
• Good judgment in delivering patient care; strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to function in stressful situations; current CPR certification.
• Willingness to rotate shifts, days off, and work areas; may occasionally be required to work overtime.
• Current Mississippi State license as RN and current BLS Certification.