RN-MED/SURG 3W2

Responsibilities

• Administers medications within the scope of practice and the hospital's policies and procedures.
• Affirms patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and significant others in a position to understand care requirements and works to resolve patient problems through the use of multidisciplinary teams.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, and significant others to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel; protecting patient and employees by adhering to policies and protocols.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential; maintaining continuity through documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs in the electronic medical record.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Completes annual competency and regulatory education.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results measured by Press Ganey/HCAPS, AIDET, and Model of Care and Conduct.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of a variety of medical equipment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to administer medications per policy and procedure.
• Ability to follow the National Patient Safety Goals.
• Ability to interpret lab and diagnostic results as it relates to patients status.
• Ability to communicate with all disciplines using SBAR.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrates courteous, kind and a caring, compassionate, positive attitude and support to the organization.
• Clinical skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance.
• ED/ICU Requirement: ACLS
• MED SURG AREAS Requirement: BLS
• College Diploma Nursing Required
• Education: Bachelors Nursing Preferred
• Experience: 0 years Required
• Licenses: Licensed Registered Nurse
• Certifications: Certified Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR
• Maintains the Standards of Behavior as outlined in Personnel Policy and Procedure #1, Employee Relations Code.
• Confidentiality/HIPAA/Corporate Compliance: Demonstrates knowledge of procedures for protecting and maintaining security, confidentiality and integrity of employee, patient, family, organizational and other medical information. Understands and supports the commitment of Methodist Hospitals in adhering to federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations governing ethical business practices for healthcare providers.