Location
Austin TX
Job Type
Full-Time Regular
Department
Intensive Care Unit
Description
Top Client in need of Registered Nurse (RN) ICU - Days / Nights
Job Summary
The
Registered Nurse (RN) is the patient and patient's family advocate. The
RN consistently applies and utilizes the nursing process, critical
thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership
to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients.
Job Duties
- The RN collaborates with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes.
- Communicates and utilizes
interpersonal skills effectively and role models confidence and
professionalism within nursing by active engagement in unit and
organizational activities. Demonstrates team work, adaptability, and is a
resource person to the patient care team.
- The RN is accountable for the quality
of nursing care services delivered by self or others under their
direction in accordance with the Texas Nurse Practice Act, hospital
policies, and the Texas Board of Nursing rules for delegated nursing
tasks (Chapter 224).
- Assessment: Conducts comprehensive,
timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain
assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
- Planning: Utilizes the assessment,
identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching
plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies
individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family
into the plan of care. Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a
competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.
- Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently
conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in
patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts
the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes
of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.
Qualifications
Education:
- Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.
Licensure/Certification/Registration:
- RN License to practice as a professional registered nursing in the state of Texas
- BLS Certification required
Experience/ Skills:
- Minimum of 1 year clinical experience as a licensed RN
- Minimum of 1 years clinical experience in the Intensive Care Unit in an acute care facility