Senior Registered Nurse - Acute Care

Responsibilities

• Serves as a patient advocate, by focusing on patient needs, patient rights, confidentiality, and religious and cultural preferences.
• Maintains positive working relationships with all Parkland internal and external customers, employees, etc.
• Serves as a resource for patients and other healthcare team members.
• Provides patient care educational information and training to patient and family members.
• May serve as a resource for specific clinical patient care issues.
• May participate in community outreach activities (such as health fairs, community collaborations or outreach clinics) as assigned.

Requirements

• Must have two years of nursing experience
• Prefers experience in an acute care setting

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

Skills or Special Abilities

• Provides care to the assigned patient population in accordance with the current State of Texas Nurse Practice Act, established protocols, multidisciplinary plan of care, and clinical area-specific standards.
• Provides continuous assessment, consults with other team members as required, and provides nursing care that demonstrates patient-centered/patient-valued care.
• Exercises independent judgment in providing nursing care.
• Must be able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and possess good oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with patients, families, and hospital staff in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• May be required to communicate effectively, via the overhead paging system.
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to provide direction to non-nursing staff, serve as a preceptor, and serve on rotation as a Charge Nurse.
• Must be able to prepare and conduct in-service educational programs.
• Must be able to demonstrate patient-centered/patient valued behaviors.
• As applicable, will be required to demonstrate acceptable knowledge of nursing standards of care for specialty care areas.

Benefits

• This designation reflects Parkland Health's ongoing commitment to providing exceptional work environment to working parents and families.
• Parkland Health has received the American Heart Association's Commitment to Quality award for achieving high performance across three or more clinical areas in the Get With The Guidelines® program.
• This prestigious recognition places Parkland among an elite group of healthcare organizations recognized for exceptional Nursing professionalism, teamwork and outcomes.
• Parkland Health has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures.
• The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), has granted three-year accreditation to the cancer program at Parkland Health.

Pay

• Night Shift

Schedule

• Full Time Position