RN, REGISTERED NURSE - NEW BRAUNFELS AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER
Company: CHRISTUS Health
Location: Canyon Lake
Posted on: September 2, 2024
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Job Description:
DescriptionSummary: The competent Nurse, in the same or similar
clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an
awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine
and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans.
Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage
contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments
and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the
clinical situation.
Responsibilities: * Meets expectations of the applicable
OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or
Leader of Leaders.
* Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides
nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment,
diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned
patients.
* Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional,
cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance
with their level of practice.
* Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and
treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the
treatment prescribed.
* Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care
given.
* Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family
members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process
* Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical,
psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of
patient and families
* Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members
* Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet
individual patient needs using evidence-based practice
* Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and
documents progression of treatment and teaching goals
* Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and
the patient response to the care and treatment(s)
* Performs timely reassessment and documentation
* Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the
specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient
population
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process
* Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to
facilitate patient flow
* Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to
facilitate the discharge process
* Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and
validating orders to ensure accuracy
Standard III. Unit Operations
* Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and
functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift
* Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of
equipment and Supplies
* Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in
resourcing efforts.
* Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and
regulations within the industry
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
* Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a
safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes
* Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality
improvement activities
* Provides evidence-based nursing care
* Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum
of care
* Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and
regulations within the industry
* Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and
regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices
and activities
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards
* Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical
procedures
* Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures
organizational compliance
* Provides feedback for improvement of procedures
* Assists in the development and implementation of specific
procedures
* Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and
techniques
Health Information Documentation
* Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient
documentation
* Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating
and updating patient records
* Describes the flow of information between various stations or
units
* Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic
documentation
* Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their
accuracy
* Explains health information documentation best practices and
their rationale across health care practices
Medical Equipment
* Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own
unit or facility
* Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common
equipment problems
* Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical
equipment
* Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper
working order prior to use to ensure patient safety
* Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment
Medical Order Processing
* Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more
groups of patients or conditions
* Describes functions and features of the system used to enter,
validate, update and forward medical orders
* Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for
correcting
* Explains considerations for entering and following standing
orders
* Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and
considerations for each
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
* Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts
for patients on unit and under own care
* Reviews patients' charts for completion and accuracy; identifies
and alerts to mistakes or omissions
* Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical
staff
* Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and
lessons learned
* Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with
others
Patient Safety
* Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient
groups or settings
* Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for
those groups and settings
* Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family
members
* Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of
problems
* Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to
self, versus harm to others
* Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses,
participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in
real-time
Requirements:
Keywords: CHRISTUS Health, Austin , RN, REGISTERED NURSE - NEW BRAUNFELS AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER, Healthcare , Canyon Lake, Texas
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