Registered Nurse - Critical Care Float Pool

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures. The purpose is to monitor and evaluate patient functional status.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Utilize the nursing process to care for patients.
• Assess, organize, and complete patient care with consideration for patient age, cultural, and psychosocial factors.
• Document steps of the nursing process using proper medical terminology.
• Address problems and progress toward goals.
• Facilitate patient discharge through timely, appropriate referrals and utilization of patient education resources, suitable to patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
• Collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate.
• Support unit/hospital goals through performance improvement and educational activities as evidenced by attending in-services, meeting unit education standards, and completing variance reports.

Decision Making

Make independent judgments from many diversified alternatives, subject to general review in final stages only.

Working Relationship

• Coordinate activities of others (does not supervise).
• Lead others in the same work performed (does not supervise).
• Have input on performance evaluations but do not prepare or give them.
• Work directly with patients and/or customers.
• Interact with internal customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
• Interact with external customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
• Work with other healthcare professionals and staff.
• Frequently interact with individuals at Director level or above.
• Supplemental Information

Skills

• Working knowledge of general disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
• Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
• Ability to be detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Working knowledge of general disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
• Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
• Ability to be detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.

Education

• Minimum Education: Completion of the basic professional curricula of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing, holding or entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.
• Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification: Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.