Registered Nurse II (RN) Emergency Room
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We must preserve all substantive info. Not invent.
We need to decide what goes where.
Section "About the role": could be introductory paragraph describing the RN II position.
Section "Responsibilities": could list essential functions categories as bullet points.
Section "Requirements": maybe licensure and certifications? Or we could combine with Qualifications.
But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Use sections only when posting has real specific content. We can have multiple sections.
Let's plan:
- About the role: paragraph summarizing role: licensed staff nurse, experienced clinician, functions at Competent to Proficient stage, provides professional nursing care, etc.
- Responsibilities: list of essential functions (People, Service, Quality/Safety, Finance, Growth/Innovation) each as bullet maybe with sub-bullets? But we can just list each category as bullet with description.
- Requirements: maybe education, experience, licenses/certifications (required and preferred). Could be a list.
- Qualifications: maybe knowledge and abilities (skills). But we already have Skills section. Could treat Knowledge and Abilities as Skills.
- Skills: list of knowledge and abilities.
- Schedule: Full-Time Dayshift.
- On-call and travel maybe under Supplemental Requirements; could be part of Responsibilities? But we could include under Requirements? Might be better to include under Responsibilities? Actually supplemental requirements are not duties but conditions. Could be part of Requirements? But we have no specific section for that. Could add a section "Additional Requirements" but not in allowed headings. The allowed headings are limited to those list. So we must fit supplemental info into existing sections: maybe under Requirements (as bullet) or under Responsibilities? The supplemental includes work attire, on-call, travel. Could be placed under Requirements as bullet items.
We must not create sections not listed. So we cannot add a section for Supplemental Requirements. We'll incorporate into Requirements or maybe Responsibilities? Probably Requirements is appropriate: includes licensure, certifications, work attire, on-call, travel.
Now ensure we don't repeat info.
Let's extract substantive info:
About the role:
- Come lead with us at Houston Methodist Hospital Full-Time-Dayshift-Medical Center At Houston Methodist, the Registered Nurse (RN) II position is a licensed staff nurse, an experienced clinician, functions at the Competent to Proficient stage of Benner's model of clinical practice. The RN II position provides professional nursing care to a diverse patient population, conducts nursing assessments, assists with exams and treatment, patient education, and maintenance of medical records. The RN II position provides direct patient care effectively and efficiently which may include patients with varied and complex needs. This position communicates and collaborates with the physicians and interprofessional health care team to facilitate, coordinate and maintain compassionate, efficient, quality care and achievement of desired treatment outcomes. The RN II position demonstrates clinical competence when providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies, acting as a patient and family advocate in order to monitor and maintain patient rights. This position assumes leadership roles with progressive responsibility including but not limited to participating in or leading unit and shared governance initiatives, serving as charge nurse or preceptor to students or new employees, and possibly contributing to service line or hospital-wide initiatives in partnership with management.
That's a lot; we can keep as paragraph.
Responsibilities: essential functions categories:
People Essential Functions:
- Uses therapeutic communication, active listening, teaching to establish relationship with patients, families, interprofessional team to collaborate on plan of care.
- Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall unit acuity, offering assistance, responding positively to requests.
- Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in work environment.
- Seeks guidance and offers guidance to interprofessional team, applies feedback to improve patient outcomes.
- Implements staff education specific to patient populations and unit processes; coaches and mentors other staff and students; may include preceptorship.
- Uses peer-to-peer accountability towards improvement of department score for turnover/retention/employee engagement on unit-based scorecard.
Service Essential Functions:
- Follows patient and family-centered care standards per Houston Methodist Professional Nursing Practice document.
- Conducts nursing assessments, assists with exams and treatment, maintenance of medical records.
- Practices in manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
- Develops, updates and communicates plan of care, including discharge, in partnership with patient, family, interprofessional team, using nursing process.
- Prioritizes care based on patient’s needs, abilities and preferences.
- Advocates on patient/family’s behalf to identify and resolve clinical and ethical concerns, utilizing appropriate resources.
- Provides patient teaching based on learning needs, uses appropriate resources, incorporating planning for care after discharge.
- Consistently evaluates patient’s comprehension and adapts teaching methods accordingly.
- Helps drive improvement of department score for patient satisfaction on unit-based scorecard, through peer-to-peer accountability to service standards.
Quality/Safety Essential Functions:
- Follows standards of care related to nursing process per Houston Methodist Professional Nursing Practice document.
- Follows standards related to regulatory requirements and professional practice per same document.
- Identifies areas of practice improvements with research-based evidence to achieve core measure and patient safety outcomes, supported by accurate documentation.
- Provides and modifies care to complex patients and coordinates care with interprofessional team based on evaluation of patient’s condition, supported by accurate documentation.
- Utilizes clinical judgement, using an evidence-based analytical approach.
- Improves quality and safety scores on unit-based scorecard, through peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses, and collaborating with interprofessional team.
Finance Essential Functions:
- Displays self-motivation to independently manage time effectively, timely document care, minimize incidental overtime, prioritize daily tasks.
- Provides input into unit resource utilization including unit capital and operational budget needs.
- Contributes towards meeting department financial targets on unit-based scorecard through decreasing length of stay, optimizing efficiency and other areas per department specifications.
Growth/Innovation Essential Functions:
- Identifies and presents areas for innovation, efficiency and improvement in patient care or unit operations using evidence-based practice literature.
- Offers innovative solutions through evidence-based practice/performance improvement projects and shared governance activities.
- Champions new care pathways or service line implementation to improve service to community.
- Identifies trends for improvement opportunities or practice changes and supports initiatives.
- Researches the change and presents options to shared governance and leadership.
Supplemental requirements (to be placed under Requirements maybe):
- Work Attire: Uniform: No; Scrubs: Yes; Business professional: No; Other (department approved): No.
- On-Call: Yes (employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies regardless of selection).
- Travel: May require travel within Houston Metropolitan area: Yes; May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area: No.
Qualifications (Education, Experience, Licenses/Certifications):
- Education: Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section.
- Experience: Twelve months registered nurse experience in a healthcare environment.
- 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
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association within 4 months
- NIHSTROKE - National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification (AHA) - American Heart Association within 4 months
- NVCRISIS - Nonviolent Crisis Intervention or Instructor (CPI) - Crisis Prevention Institute within 4 months
- Preferred:
- Magnet - ANCC Recognized Certification
- ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Certification (ENA)
- TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course or Instructor (ENA)
Knowledge and Abilities (Skills):
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations as defined in orientation checklist and annual departmental competency checklist.
- 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.
- Ability 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 assessment, organizational and problem solving skills as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.
- Ability to function independently and exercise judgment in interactions with physicians, interprofessional care team and patients and their families.
- Uses critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to work autonomously as defined by the Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrates proficient time management skills.
- Maintains level of professional contributions as defined in Clinical Career Path program guide.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft products including Outlook.
Schedule: Full-Time Dayshift.
Now we need to output HTML with headings
and appropriate content.
We must not include any boilerplate like EEO.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must not create Pay/Benefits sections.
We must not create sections with filler.
Now produce HTML.
We'll structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- People Essential Functions: ... (maybe we can break into sub-bullets? but we can keep as one bullet with semicolons). Better to have each bullet as a function category, and inside we can have
but nested lists? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It didn't forbid nested lists. Could do nested
inside - . But to keep simple, we can have each bullet as a category and then sub-bullets using
- inside. That is still a list.
We'll do:
Responsibilities
- People Essential Functions
- Uses therapeutic communication, active listening, teaching to establish relationship with patients, families, and interprofessional team to collaborate on plan of care.
- Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall unit acuity, offering assistance, and responding positively to requests.
- Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in the work environment.
- Seeks guidance and offers guidance to interprofessional team, applying feedback to improve patient outcomes.
- Implements staff education specific to patient populations and unit processes; coaches and ment
for prose. We must preserve all substantive info. Not invent. We need to decide what goes where. Section "About the role": could be introductory paragraph describing the RN II position. Section "Responsibilities": could list essential functions categories as bullet points. Section "Requirements": maybe licensure and certifications? Or we could combine with Qualifications. But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Use sections only when posting has real specific content. We can have multiple sections. Let's plan: - About the role: paragraph summarizing role: licensed staff nurse, experienced clinician, functions at Competent to Proficient stage, provides professional nursing care, etc. - Responsibilities: list of essential functions (People, Service, Quality/Safety, Finance, Growth/Innovation) each as bullet maybe with sub-bullets? But we can just list each category as bullet with description. - Requirements: maybe education, experience, licenses/certifications (required and preferred). Could be a list. - Qualifications: maybe knowledge and abilities (skills). But we already have Skills section. Could treat Knowledge and Abilities as Skills. - Skills: list of knowledge and abilities. - Schedule: Full-Time Dayshift. - On-call and travel maybe under Supplemental Requirements; could be part of Responsibilities? But we could include under Requirements? Might be better to include under Responsibilities? Actually supplemental requirements are not duties but conditions. Could be part of Requirements? But we have no specific section for that. Could add a section "Additional Requirements" but not in allowed headings. The allowed headings are limited to those list. So we must fit supplemental info into existing sections: maybe under Requirements (as bullet) or under Responsibilities? The supplemental includes work attire, on-call, travel. Could be placed under Requirements as bullet items. We must not create sections not listed. So we cannot add a section for Supplemental Requirements. We'll incorporate into Requirements or maybe Responsibilities? Probably Requirements is appropriate: includes licensure, certifications, work attire, on-call, travel. Now ensure we don't repeat info. Let's extract substantive info: About the role: - Come lead with us at Houston Methodist Hospital Full-Time-Dayshift-Medical Center At Houston Methodist, the Registered Nurse (RN) II position is a licensed staff nurse, an experienced clinician, functions at the Competent to Proficient stage of Benner's model of clinical practice. The RN II position provides professional nursing care to a diverse patient population, conducts nursing assessments, assists with exams and treatment, patient education, and maintenance of medical records. The RN II position provides direct patient care effectively and efficiently which may include patients with varied and complex needs. This position communicates and collaborates with the physicians and interprofessional health care team to facilitate, coordinate and maintain compassionate, efficient, quality care and achievement of desired treatment outcomes. The RN II position demonstrates clinical competence when providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies, acting as a patient and family advocate in order to monitor and maintain patient rights. This position assumes leadership roles with progressive responsibility including but not limited to participating in or leading unit and shared governance initiatives, serving as charge nurse or preceptor to students or new employees, and possibly contributing to service line or hospital-wide initiatives in partnership with management. That's a lot; we can keep as paragraph. Responsibilities: essential functions categories: People Essential Functions: - Uses therapeutic communication, active listening, teaching to establish relationship with patients, families, interprofessional team to collaborate on plan of care. - Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall unit acuity, offering assistance, responding positively to requests. - Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in work environment. - Seeks guidance and offers guidance to interprofessional team, applies feedback to improve patient outcomes. - Implements staff education specific to patient populations and unit processes; coaches and mentors other staff and students; may include preceptorship. - Uses peer-to-peer accountability towards improvement of department score for turnover/retention/employee engagement on unit-based scorecard. Service Essential Functions: - Follows patient and family-centered care standards per Houston Methodist Professional Nursing Practice document. - Conducts nursing assessments, assists with exams and treatment, maintenance of medical records. - Practices in manner congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles. - Develops, updates and communicates plan of care, including discharge, in partnership with patient, family, interprofessional team, using nursing process. - Prioritizes care based on patient’s needs, abilities and preferences. - Advocates on patient/family’s behalf to identify and resolve clinical and ethical concerns, utilizing appropriate resources. - Provides patient teaching based on learning needs, uses appropriate resources, incorporating planning for care after discharge. - Consistently evaluates patient’s comprehension and adapts teaching methods accordingly. - Helps drive improvement of department score for patient satisfaction on unit-based scorecard, through peer-to-peer accountability to service standards. Quality/Safety Essential Functions: - Follows standards of care related to nursing process per Houston Methodist Professional Nursing Practice document. - Follows standards related to regulatory requirements and professional practice per same document. - Identifies areas of practice improvements with research-based evidence to achieve core measure and patient safety outcomes, supported by accurate documentation. - Provides and modifies care to complex patients and coordinates care with interprofessional team based on evaluation of patient’s condition, supported by accurate documentation. - Utilizes clinical judgement, using an evidence-based analytical approach. - Improves quality and safety scores on unit-based scorecard, through peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses, and collaborating with interprofessional team. Finance Essential Functions: - Displays self-motivation to independently manage time effectively, timely document care, minimize incidental overtime, prioritize daily tasks. - Provides input into unit resource utilization including unit capital and operational budget needs. - Contributes towards meeting department financial targets on unit-based scorecard through decreasing length of stay, optimizing efficiency and other areas per department specifications. Growth/Innovation Essential Functions: - Identifies and presents areas for innovation, efficiency and improvement in patient care or unit operations using evidence-based practice literature. - Offers innovative solutions through evidence-based practice/performance improvement projects and shared governance activities. - Champions new care pathways or service line implementation to improve service to community. - Identifies trends for improvement opportunities or practice changes and supports initiatives. - Researches the change and presents options to shared governance and leadership. Supplemental requirements (to be placed under Requirements maybe): - Work Attire: Uniform: No; Scrubs: Yes; Business professional: No; Other (department approved): No. - On-Call: Yes (employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies regardless of selection). - Travel: May require travel within Houston Metropolitan area: Yes; May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area: No. Qualifications (Education, Experience, Licenses/Certifications): - Education: Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section. - Experience: Twelve months registered nurse experience in a healthcare environment. - 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 - ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association - PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association within 4 months - NIHSTROKE - National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification (AHA) - American Heart Association within 4 months - NVCRISIS - Nonviolent Crisis Intervention or Instructor (CPI) - Crisis Prevention Institute within 4 months - Preferred: - Magnet - ANCC Recognized Certification - ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Certification (ENA) - TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course or Instructor (ENA) Knowledge and Abilities (Skills): - Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations as defined in orientation checklist and annual departmental competency checklist. - 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. - Ability 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 assessment, organizational and problem solving skills as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components. - Ability to function independently and exercise judgment in interactions with physicians, interprofessional care team and patients and their families. - Uses critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to work autonomously as defined by the Nurse Practice Act. - Demonstrates proficient time management skills. - Maintains level of professional contributions as defined in Clinical Career Path program guide. - Working knowledge of Microsoft products including Outlook. Schedule: Full-Time Dayshift. Now we need to output HTML with headings
and appropriate content.
We must not include any boilerplate like EEO.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must not create Pay/Benefits sections.
We must not create sections with filler.
Now produce HTML.
We'll structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- People Essential Functions: ... (maybe we can break into sub-bullets? but we can keep as one bullet with semicolons). Better to have each bullet as a function category, and inside we can have
- but nested lists? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It didn't forbid nested lists. Could do nested
- inside
- . But to keep simple, we can have each bullet as a category and then sub-bullets using
- inside. That is still a list.
We'll do:
Responsibilities
- People Essential Functions
- Uses therapeutic communication, active listening, teaching to establish relationship with patients, families, and interprofessional team to collaborate on plan of care.
- Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall unit acuity, offering assistance, and responding positively to requests.
- Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in the work environment.
- Seeks guidance and offers guidance to interprofessional team, applying feedback to improve patient outcomes.
- Implements staff education specific to patient populations and unit processes; coaches and ment
- People Essential Functions
- inside. That is still a list.
We'll do:
- . But to keep simple, we can have each bullet as a category and then sub-bullets using
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It didn't forbid nested lists. Could do nested