Registered Nurse

About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 33 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

At Steward Health Care System, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized health care with dignity, compassion and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers in how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.

We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in the making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.

In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Excellence

Stewardship

If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.

Summary of Responsibility: 

Practices professional nursing under the general supervision of the Nurse Director and/or charge nurse, delivering quality patient care through the application of the nursing process; that is, through assessment of patient needs, interdisciplinary planning to meet those needs, direct intervention, evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention, and readjustment of the plan of care.

Duties

1. Prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process as a framework for administering care:
   1. Assessment
   2. Individualized care planning with measurable goals and expected outcomes
   3. Ongoing assessment and care planning in collaboration with other disciplines
   4. Participation in discharge planning

2.         Participates in the planning, implementation, and coordination of health teaching of the patient, family, and/or significant other.

3.         Responds immediately, or within 10 minutes to Patient Call Lights

4.         Responds immediately to clinical alarms

5.         Conducts bedside handoff in the room on each shift.

6.         Demonstrates clinical competence, appropriate judgment, and accountability in the administration of nursing care.

1. Demonstrates increasing ability to identify patient problems, symptoms, abnormal diagnostic data, and their common inter-relationships.
2. Assists in the management of patients in stressful, acute, and complex situations.
3. Accurately transcribes and executes medical staff orders.
4. Administers medication and IV fluids safely according to the hospital’s policies and procedures.

7.         Demonstrates competencies necessary to provide safe and effective care to populations served.

8.         Identifies spiritual, cultural, legal, and ethical aspects of care.

9.         Completes necessary documentation per departmental and organizational guidelines.

1. Records and reports patient information through appropriate channels
2. Documents and reports unusual events/ occurrences using the hospital incident report.

10.       Develops leadership skills in managing the unit in the absence of the Nurse Director

1. Demonstrates ability to supervise and delegate appropriate aspects of care to Nursing Assistants.
2. Complies with established policies and procedures, regulatory and legal requirements of practice.

11.       Facilitates the attainment of unit, department, and organizational goals.

12.       Continually enhances professional knowledge and skills.

1. Is self-directed in attaining/maintaining competence.
2. Identifies learning needs, establishes goals, and works with preceptor to fulfill goals within established time frames.
3. Completes and maintains Assessment of Competency Tool (ACT).
4. Attends in-services/continuing education programs.

Requirements/Education/Experience:  

1.         Graduate of accredited nursing program

2.         Current licensure to practice professional nursing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

3.         Clinical experience of 6 months or greater as a Registered Nurse, or re-entry following a period of more than 5 years in which nursing was not practiced.

4.         Basic Life Support

Physical Demands:    

1. Travel to and assignment at any inpatient hospital unit as needed.
2. Lift, boost, turn or transfer patients weighing up to approximately 300 lbs in and out of bed, on and off of stretchers or wheelchairs an average of 25 times a day, with assist as needed.
3. Frequent (>25 times daily) lifting & carrying supplies and equipment up to approximately 30 lbs.
4. Frequently (>30 times daily) twisting, bending, reaching, stooping, pushing and pulling.
5. Ability to stand 90% of working hours, intermingled with sitting and walking.
6. Hand dexterity both left and right for simple grasping, pushing, pulling and fine manipulation.
7. Frequent bending, squatting, climbing stairs, twisting, turning, reaching above the shoulder and below the waist.
8. Use of keyboard 2-4 hours per day.
9. Visual and auditory ability to observe changes in patient status.

Working Conditions

1.         Patient environment with exposure to clinical equipment/machinery, medications, cluttered rooms and hallways, noisy environment with frequent interruptions.

2.         Exposure to infectious illness, body fluids and cleaning materials.

Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.