RN - 7S

Responsibilities

• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice
• Creates positive therapeutic relationships with patients/families
• Provides leadership to other team members
• Supervises and encourages team members
• Serves on performance improvement teams
• Assists with performance improvement measures
• Supports and implements changes for improvement
• Assigns and delegates nursing care
• Documents observations, care provided, and changes in care plan
• Participates in transition rounds, care planning, and team shift reports
• Evaluates and reevaluates patient care
• Coordinates care planning with patient, family, providers, and other disciplines
• Performs initial and annual competency assessments
• Communicates clearly and accurately
• Delegates tasks to team members and students
• Addresses conflict and stressful situations
• Engages in face-to-face discussions
• Deals with unpleasant or verbally/physically aggressive personalities
• Uses electronic mail, telephone, and texting
• Works in groups
• Performs structured and unstructured work
• Meets time pressure and time lines
• Exhibits leadership skills
• Performs medium work
• Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
• Tolerates prolonged periods of standing and walking
• Reaches reasonable distances in any direction
• Stands, walks, kneels, bends, sits, and stoops
• Runs in an emergency
• Lifts, pushes, pulls, and carries objects
• Moves fingers in a coordinated manner
• Feels and perceives temperature, texture, shape, and size with fingertips
• Performs duties with or without reasonable accommodation
• Possesses stamina to work prolonged shifts
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range
• Physical presence onsite is essential

Requirements

• Current Alabama RN license
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training
• Professional Nursing Certification preferred
• Ability to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English