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Registered Nurse Emergency Transport
Methodist Healthcare
San Antonio, TX, United States
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Category: Registered Nurse • Job ID: 4728610
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As a Registered Nurse Transport Critical Care, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn -whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You''ll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Job Summary and Qualifications
General Statement of Duties:
Will collaborate with other healthcare providers, both internally and externally, in overseeing an ongoing comprehensive plan of care for a complex patient or groups of patients. Must anticipate consequences of altered physiologic homeostasis, utilizes advanced skills to initiate early interventions and participates in identifying, planning/implementing changes to improve service operations and patient care outcomes. Must possess the critical care experience and specialized training to function independently and interdependently in organizing and directing a critical care patient interfacility transport (via ambulance, rotor wing aircraft, or fixed wing aircraft) and in providing direct patient care to a critical care patient with complex care needs.
Essential Job Functions:
Utilizes in-depth assessment skills to perform comprehensive patient assessments. Assesses predictable and potential needs of patients in complex situations.
Interprets client health status data to formulate a nursing diagnosis. Provides care for complex patients, correlates clinical data with diagnosis and symptoms in order to initiate appropriate therapy. Ensures that nursing diagnoses are congruent and collaborative with medical diagnoses.
Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient. Makes independent nursing judgments recognizing need to change plan of care based on patient outcome.
Prioritizes patient's actual and potential needs. Forms plan of care in collaboration with the patient, significant others, and health care team members. Adjusts the plan of care according to the continual assessment of the patient.
Anticipates impending crisis and initiates early intervention to prevent problems or complications. Performs advanced skills specific to care of the critically ill/injured patient, both in a hospital setting and in the transport environment.
Evaluates and modifies the nursing plan of care based on observable responses to interventions and attainment of patient outcomes. Ensures the evaluation is systematic and on-going.
Additional Job Functions:
Directs or delegates care based on the needs of the patient and the knowledge and skill of the provider(s).
Formulates and evaluates standards of nursing care, policies and competencies.
Systematically and continuously evaluates the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of patient care and nursing practice in the critical care transport environment.
Practices safety measures through applied knowledge of: i. General aviation safety procedures ii. iii. iv. Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) rules and regulations pertaining to safety Emergency aircraft/ambulance equipment and procedure Safe use of patient care procedures and equipment used in the transport environment
Learns and complies with System and facility safety policies and rules; uses appropriate safety equipment and procedures at all times; must immediately report all unsafe conditions to supervisors; must be familiar with all safety features of equipment, tools or materials encompassed by job duties; and must check with supervisors (prior to job performance) if there is a question as to the safe procedure to be used for any job function.
Supports the mission and vision of the Methodist Healthcare System and demonstrates excellent customer service at all times.
Understands and is committed to helping the Methodist Healthcare System and its associated facilities achieve its goals.
Must learn and comply with System and facility safety policies and rules; must use appropriate safety equipment and procedures at all times; must immediately report all unsafe conditions to supervisors; must be familiar with all safety features of equipment, tools or materials encompassed by job duties; and must check with supervisors (prior to job performance) if there is a question as to the safe procedure to be used for any job function.
Adheres to the MHS Code of Conduct and demonstrates ethical behavior as expected by our patients, colleagues and the community. Understands the personal obligation to report any activity that appears to violate applicable laws, rules regulations or the Code of Conduct itself.
Completes other duties as assigned.
Job Dimensions:
Expert knowledge of the basic principles, theories, and methods of patient care, both in a hospital and in a interfacility transport environment. Ability to delegate appropriately to differing levels of skilled individuals. Can constantly reassess and reset priorities.
Effectively meeting customer needs; building productive customer relationships; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
Consistently maintaining high levels of activity or productivity; sustaining long working hours when necessary; operating with vigor, effectiveness, and determination over extended periods of time.
Having the knowledge and skills to secure relevant patient care data and identify key patient issues; understanding relationships between assessment, interventions, and patient responses; skilled in documentation assessments and adjusting physical and cognitive prescriptions as needed.
Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
Having knowledge of conditions that affect patient, self, and/or employee safety under normal conditions and conditions that occur in crisis situations. Skilled in identifying conditions that might cause health or safety hazards and takes action to remove such hazards. Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment for patient, self, and/or others in crisis.
Completes competencies as defined by department/unit and/or clinical specialty area
What qualifications you will need:
Basic Cardiac Life Support
(RN) Registered Nurse
Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree, or Registered Nurse
NRP required
PALS, STABLE within 6 months of becoming a Transport Nurse.
Occasional/ Intermittent Required
2 years RN experience Required
Benefits
Methodist Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing's future."
Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare (Corporate), based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worldâ€s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Transport Critical Care opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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