Registered Nurse-Acute MedSurical A-Full Time (6/29/2025)

Company: CHRISTUS Health
Location: Shreveport
Posted on: June 29, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description Description Summary: 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 Job Requirements: Education/Skills - Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred Experience - 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications - BLS required - RN License in state of employment or compact Work Schedule: 7AM - 7PM Work Type: Full Time

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