Emergency Room Registered Nurse

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 in caring for assigned patients.

• Completes assessment and individualizes plan of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.

• Carries out nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients.

• Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.

• Anticipates patient/unit needs.

• Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.

• Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.

• Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.

• Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.

• Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.

• Utilizes correct medical terminology abbreviations.

• Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.

• Facilitates patient teaching discharge.

• Makes timely, appropriate referrals.

• Utilizes resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.

• Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.

• Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities.

• Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.

• Accurately completes variance reports.

• Decision Making: Independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.

• Working Relationship: Works directly with patients and/or customers.

• Works with internal/external customers.

• Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.

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Required Skills & Experience:

-Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.

• Epic experience.

• Working knowledge of 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• N/A

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Required Education:

• Completion of basic professional curriculum 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.

Preferred Education:

• N/A

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Required Certification & Licensure:

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

• BLS, ACLS & PALS, NIHSS.

Preferred Certification & Licensure:

• N/A

Must Have

• 2 years of experience
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• BLS
• BLS certified through AHA
• NIHSS

Nice To Have

• ENPC
TNCC