Registered Nurse FT Days - Endoscopy Unit

About the role

We are hiring immediately for a full‑time RN and offering a $10,000 sign‑on bonus. With Our Lady of the Lake, we offer career opportunities for people who have a calling to share their gifts and talents as part of our healing ministry. As part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, we are here to create a spirit of healing – and we invite you to join our team if you would like to be part of that spirit. In addition to competitive salaries and generous benefits, we offer you something special – the chance to do God's work by helping to serve people in need throughout our community, every day.

The Registered Nurse provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, incorporating differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, including patient and family education, and relies on education and training to complete responsibilities within the scope of licensure as a registered nurse.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Growth opportunities
• Affordable employee benefits
• A community culture where you don’t feel lost in a large health system

Responsibilities

• Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrates changing data.
• Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
• Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs.
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs (i.e., treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options).
• Responds to changes in patient's needs and provides holistic care using independent clinical judgment based on knowledge drawn from education and experience.
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content.
• Integrates education during the delivery of patient care.
• Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
• Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care, determines immediate priorities, and offers solutions for problems.
• Actively advocates for patient rights, identifies potential conflict, and seeks counsel for resolution of conflict.
• Identifies variances from expected outcomes.
• Evaluates patient outcomes and makes revisions in the plan of care.
• Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards and assists the healthcare team with the documentation process.
• Consistently communicates/collaborates with the health care team members, patients, and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Appropriately delegates patient care activities to other health care team members and participates in making and revising staff assignments to achieve maximum productivity.
• Maintains knowledge regarding unit initiatives and incorporates the outcomes of the team/committees work into practice.
• Participates on unit teams, work groups, and/or committees.
• Anticipates needs and voluntarily assists others.
• Demonstrates knowledge of unit