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Float RN - 719
Ada, OK | Health | Full Time
Posted today | Apply before February 29, 2024
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Description
We are currently looking for a Full Time Float RN to join our Inpatient Staffing team located at the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center.
Summary:
Plans and provides comprehensive patient care by utilizing and documenting the nursing process: including teaching patients and their families, and discharge planning.
Responsibilities:
- Provides first class customer service - courteous and helpful to all internal and external customer types
- Greets and engages with a smile
- Determines and meets needs
- Seeks positive experience and outcomes
- Answers questions in a courteous and professional manner
- Partners with internal and external services as needed to ensure appropriate referral is made
- Completes all training and development requirements and participates in continuing education opportunities
- Works in a collaborative and supportive manner to support the productivity and safety of the work area, team members and customers of all types
- Shares responsibilities for maintaining adequate supplies and equipment
- Maintains general upkeep of work area and maintains a safe environment
- Observes and addresses potential environmental hazards and risks
- Maintains and promotes professionalism
- Punctual and consistent in meeting start time, work schedule, attendance and other assigned work time metrics
- Adheres to Chickasaw Nation dress code standards
- May provide break coverage for others as assigned
- May augment staff in other areas as needed based on staffing and needs ratio in regularly assigned unit
- Maintain knowledge of and follow all laws, rules, regulations, policies and SOPs for assigned area, e.g. MICS, TICS, hospital standards, health codes, food sanitation, accounting principles, etc.
- Participates in performance improvement activities to measure, assess and improve the quality of assigned work area
- Maintains confidentiality, security, and integrity of data and information in accordance with HIPAA regulations
- Administers CPR as needed according to Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) and NIHSS Credentialing
- Calculates and safely administers all prescribed medications according to nursing standards and facility policy and protocols
- Is a strong advocate and active participant in patient and patient family education i.e., diagnosis, medications and discharge instructions
- Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy
- Assessment of patients experiencing urgent, emergent, or non-emergent conditions
- Assesses physical needs of all ages of patients
- Assesses bio-psychosocial needs of all ages of patients
- Assesses health education needs of all ages of patients
- Provides age and culturally appropriate, holistic patient care based upon facility mission statements and as outlined in policies and procedures
- Implement interventions appropriate to the age-specific needs of the patient
- Assists provider with diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical procedures, exams, specimen collection and other care as directed
- Assists with preparing orders for labs, tests, and medications per provider’s direction
- Develops and maintains care planning for patients and reviews the care plan for assigned patients
- May be required to act as Manager on Duty in the absence of the manager to ensure all operational standards are maintained
- All other duties as assigned
Competencies:
Essential:
- Follow instructions, written or oral
- Adhere to all scheduling and attendance requirements
- Honesty, truthfulness, reliability, accountability
- Read, understand and apply regulations and policies
- Learn and apply laws which directly confer rights
- Verbal with team, departments, guests and management
- Clinical info to patient in emergent or urgent settings
- Maintains clear and complete employee health records
Skills:
Essential:
- Basic Computer skills
- Medication administration
Experience:
Education:
Essential:
- Associate of Nursing
Credentials:
Essential:
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- Pass general background check
- Basic Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Reg Nurse
Working Conditions:
Essential:
- Fast-paced
- Hospital or Clinic
- Potential exposure to biohazards
- Potential exposure to contagious diseases
- Communications phone, computer
- Communications written, verbal
- May be required to assist individuals who are emotionally disturbed
- Interruptions
- Staff
- Pass pre-employment drug test
- Frequently bend, kneel, stoop, push, reach
- Use computer up to 25% of shift
- Standing up to 100% of shift
- Walk up to 100% of shift
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