Staff Nurse - RN

Qualifications

• Education: Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Licensure: Mississippi Board of Nursing or Compact State Licensure as a Registered Nurse.
• Experience: Preferred but not required.
• Special Skills: National Certification as required by specific nursing units.
• Language/Communication/Organizational Skills: Ability to speak effectively and professionally to staff, management, and outside individuals.
• Mental/Mathematical Skills: Must be able to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities, apply basic and advanced mathematical skills in an effort to calculate medications; IV drip rates and medication dosages.
• Reasoning Ability: Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, staff, visitors, etc

Physical Demands

• Able to sit, stand; talk, hear alarms; use hands and fingers to feel and touch; push, pull; crouch or crawl; stoop; kneel; reach with hands and arms, taste or smell.
• May be required to exert up to 50 lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs constantly.
• This job has vision requirements, close, distance and color.
• Must be able to identify and distinguish colors, have peripheral vision and the ability to judge depth perception.