Perinatal Nursing Specialist

6 days ago

Tyler, Texas, United States Christus Health Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Perinatal Nursing Specialist to join our team at Christus Health. In this role, you will provide exceptional care to patients and their families in the Labor and Delivery Department.

About the Role

The Perinatal Nursing Specialist will practice independently and demonstrate an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. You will provide 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.

This position is specific to the Labor and Delivery Department.

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.

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

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
  • All newly hired experienced RNs must attend New Nurses Orientation within the first 30 days of hire.
  • New hires are precepted by a designated trained staff member and initial on-boarding requirements are validated through successful completion of the designated organizational entry competency validation and a Perinatal Department-specific competency validation.
  • Completion of all annual competency verification requirements.
  • 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred
  • Perinatal RN Residency, or recently practicing in a Perinatal Setting is preferred.
  • BLS required
  • RN License in state of employment or compact
  • Current certification from NCC Electronic Fetal Monitoring (C-EFM) or one of the following AWHONN courses: Intermediate FHM, Intermediate FHM Instructor, Advanced FHM Instructor, or Instructor Trainer at the time of hire for experienced nurses. If previously uncertified, certification must be obtained within 30 days of hire as they cannot practice independently without it. For new graduates and experienced nurses new to the specialty, certification must be obtained within 4 months of hire and maintained thereafter.
  • Current ACLS certification within 30 days of hire for experienced nurses; within 90 days of hire for new graduates then required to maintain certification thereafter.
  • Current NRP certification at time of hire for experienced nurses; within 60 days for new graduates and experienced nurses new to the specialty then required to maintain certification thereafter.

Estimated Salary Range:$85,000 - $115,000 per annum

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