Intensive Care Nurse

4 weeks ago


San Antonio, United States UT Health San Antonio Full time

The Registered Nurse IV practices at the level of an expert practitioner of nursing. The nurse at this level demonstrates expertise in caring for patients with multiple and complex problems. In addition to demonstrating clinical leadership on the unit, the Registered Nurse IV serves as a resource and system-wide consultant to staff and participates in endeavors to increase nursing knowledge. The Registered Nurse IV functions as a clinical leader.

Job Duties:

  • Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork and exceptional service. Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift.
  • Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes. Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members. Demonstrates and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff.
  • Promotes and ensures the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care. Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
  • Coordinates, designs and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients and families. Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service and staff development offerings.
  • Participates in development and implementation of competency initiatives. Serves as an area of specialty consultant in the design of educational programs.
  • Participates in development of and provides clinical expertise for patient education materials. Promotes professional growth of self and staff. Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational experiences for students.
  • Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Provides feedback to Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff.
  • Assists Nurse Manager by providing assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals.
  • Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues. Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
  • Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff. Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities.
  • Collaborates with Nurse Manager to evaluate research that is applicable to practice and promotes changes in standards of care as appropriate. Guides research development and implementation. Utilizes resources in asking research questions and applying appropriate research methods. Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or other means.
  • Develops, implements and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals. Leads, participates and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited School of Nursing required
  • Five (5) years nursing experience in a healthcare environment required
  • Current Texas Board of Nursing (or Compact State) RN license required or temporary TX License (Permanent license to be obtained within 90 days of hire)
  • American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) required
  • NIHSS required (within 6 months of hire date)
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required (within 6 months of hire date)
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) required (within 6 months of hire date)
  • CCRN preferred



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