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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Jourdanton, TX
Jourdanton, Texas

About this job

Methodist HospitalSouth In July 2017, South Texas RegionalMedical Center becamepart of the Methodist Healthcare System family, the most preferred andrespected healthcare provider in the area.
With this change of ownership, weare now known as Methodist Hospital South.
Even though our name has changed,the heart of our hospital remains; it just got a little bigger.
The foundationwe now stand on is faith-based and driven by our commitment to "ServingHumanity to Honor God".
The clinical team at Methodist Hospital South is comprisedof healthcare professionals with years of training and experience who bringcompassion to their work.
Our 67 bed hospital has been nationally recognized byLeapfrog's Hospital Safety Grade A, designated as an accredited Chest PainCenter, and recognized by The Joint Commission as a Top Performer on KeyQuality Measures.
Services include Rehabilitation, Surgical, and Labor &Delivery.
For more information, please visit our website at www.methodisthospitalsouth.com.
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. 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).
Essential Job Functions: * Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process, to include: * Assessment: Conducts ongoing focused physical, psychosocial, 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 an efficient nursing plan of care.
* Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluations, 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.
* Collaborates with patient care team members on patient care plan, incorporating consistent use of hand-off communication and SBAR communication methods.
* Prioritizes tasks and adjusts priorities when necessary. Maintains an orderly, efficient, and timely flow of patients. Recognizes and reports errors or unusual occurrences, and initiates corrective action when appropriate.
* Makes accurate, complete, and timely entries into the patient medical record addressing all steps of the nursing process.
Actively communicates with members of the healthcare team, patient, and patient family.
* Maintains current nursing knowledge to assure a safe working environment.
EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED: * Required: Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.
* Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) MinimumLicense, Certificates, or Registrations Required: 1.
Required: RN License to practice as aprofessional registered nursing in the state of Texas or Active Multi-State RN CompactLicense.
(Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RNLicense within 90 days of hire date.) 2.
Preferred: Certification in theirspecialty EXPERIENCE: * A minimum of six (6) months clinical experience as a licensed RN