What are the responsibilities and job description for the Float RN position at the Chickasaw Nation?
Float RN - 19243
Ada, OK | Health | Full Time
Posted yesterday | | Apply before June 30, 2025
Apply
Save
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
- Answers questions in a courteous and professional manner
- Greets and engages with a smile
- Determines needs, seeks positive experience and outcomes
- 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
- Maintains general upkeep of work area and maintains a safe environment
- 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
- Maintains knowledge of and follows 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
- Advocates and participates in patient and patient family education i.e., diagnosis, medications and discharge instructions
- Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy
- Performs assessments on 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 and advocates age and culturally appropriate, holistic patient care based upon facility mission statements and as outlined in policies and procedures
- Implements 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
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Competencies:
Essential:
- Able to follow instructions, both written and oral
- Able to adhere to all scheduling and attendance requirements
- Honesty, truthfulness, reliability, accountability
- Able to read, understand, apply, and retain knowledge of Chickasaw Nation, departmental, divisional and all other rules, regulations, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Learn and apply Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Privacy Act, Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), Freedom of Information Act, Compliance Standards, Joint Commission Accreditation, and other various regulations
- Able to verbally communicate in a professional and positive manner with other team members, departments, guests and management
- Communicates clinical information to patient in emergent or urgent settings
- Maintains clear and complete employee health records
Skills:
Essential:
- Basic Computer skills
- Medication administration
Experience:
Essential:
- 1 year directly related experience
Education:
Essential:
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing required
Credentials:
Essential:
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- Pass general background check
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Registered Nurse
Working Conditions:
Essential:
- Fast-paced
- Works in a hospital or clinic environment
- Potential exposure to biohazards
- Potential exposure to contagious diseases
- Communications phone, computer
- Communications written, verbal
- May be required to assist individuals with unmanaged emotions
- Interruptions
- Interacts with clinical, support, technical, professional or management staff in a variety of settings and situations
- Pass pre-employment drug test
- Frequently bend, kneel, stoop, push, reach
- Use computer up to 25% of shift
- Standing up to 100% of shift
- Walking up to 100% of shift