RN - Cardiac Surgical Stepdown

Description

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.

Job Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to care for patients.
• Assesses, organizes, and completes patient care with consideration for patient age, cultural, and psychosocial factors.
• Documents steps of the nursing process.
• Utilizes proper medical terminology. Addresses problems and progress toward goals.
• Facilitates patient discharge through timely, appropriate referrals and utilization of patient education resources, suitable to patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.
• Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.
• Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities as evidenced by attending in-services, meeting unit education standards, and completing variance reports.

Decision Making:

Independent judgment in making decisions from many diversified alternatives that are subject to general review in final stages only.

Working Relationship:

• Coordinates activities of others (does not supervise).
• Leads others in the same work performed (does not supervise).
• Has input on performance evaluations but does not prepare or give.
• Works directly with patients and/or customers.
• Works with internal customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
• Works with external customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
• Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.
• Works frequently with individuals at Director level or above.

Skills

Required Skills & Experience:

• Two (2) years of work-related experience.
• Working knowledge of general disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
• Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
• Ability to be detail-oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.

Education

Required Education:

• Has completed the basic professional curricula of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.

Required Certifications & Licensure:

• Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.