Registered Nurse - ICU | FT Nights

About the role

White Rock Medical Center is a community-based hospital located near the historic White Rock Lake community, serving the Dallas, Garland, Mesquite and surrounding areas. We specialize in a wide range of services including comprehensive medical/surgical care, bariatric, cardiology, outpatient and emergency medicine. Our mission is to deliver exceptional healthcare with compassion and excellence.

Why join White Rock Medical Center?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Employee programs and events
• Paid Time Off and 5 Company Holidays with 2 Floating Holidays
• Employer paid life insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits such as STD, LTD, etc.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for decision making relative to the nursing care of the patients on designated patient care unit on designated shift
• Functions independently within a broad scope of established hospital and departmental policies and goals in rendering physical and supportive care and health teaching to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
• Safely manages the environment of care while providing services
• Interacts appropriately with staff, physicians, and other departments in collaborative relationships to meet the needs of patient/families
• Supervises and delegates appropriately to other licensed and non-licensed staff members in providing care to patients/families
• Utilizes effective communication in interpersonal relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team through verbal, non-verbal, & written methods on a daily basis
• Documents data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes in EMR
• Accurately obtains and records in EMR results of glucose monitoring and ACT Plus analyzer
• Accurately runs controls on glucometer and ACT Plus analyzers and documents QC appropriately
• Ensures that control bottles and test cartridges are dated accurately
• Manages patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly
• Administers blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions
• Competent to transport ICU/Ventilatory patients to radiology and other areas
• Competent to recover patients from OR
• Sets up, operates, or monitors invasive equipment and devices such as smart pumps, epidural pumps, pacemakers, warming and cooling machines, intra-aortic balloon pump, SCD's, mechanical ventilator
• Performs emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
• Discusses illnesses and treatments with patients and family members
• Advocates for patients' and families' needs or provides emotional support for patients and their families
• Uses critical thinking skills in diagnosing clinical problems and in defining interventions
• Administers medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods
• Prioritizes nursing care for assigned critically ill patients based on assessment data and identified needs
• Documents patients' medical histories, medication reconciliation and assessment findings on admissions and completes all admission documentation in EMR
• Collaborates with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care
• Provides high quality care to all patients & coordinates care with interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrates knowledge regarding tissue and organ donation protocols and advanced directives
• Competent to titrate drips including but not limited to sedatives, vaso-active medications, insulin drips, paralytics, anti-arrhythmic medications
• Demonstrates leadership abilities and assumes leadership in the Registered Nurse role through various designated duties on a daily basis
• Initiates, supports, and facilitates the change process within the professional milieu in concert with institutional goals and objectives on an ongoing basis
• Provides preventative skin care and prevention of VAP, DVT, Falls, Infections, etc.
• Enters ESRM for wounds POA
• Responds and participates in RRT calls and team lead Code Blues
• Completes daily dashboard sheets for requirements of ICU care per protocols
• Competent to assist physician at bedside with procedures
• Competent to pull femoral arterial, venous sheaths, chest tubes, swan ganz, arterial lines, central venous catheters according to protocol

Requirements

• Less than 3 errors for the year