Nurse Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Houston, Texas, United States CommonSpirit Health Full time
Job Summary

Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center is a world-renowned leader in research and clinical excellence, driving breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, and more. Our teams' efforts have led to the creation of numerous research programs and initiatives, developing advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. Our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment is reflected in our new McNair Campus, designed around the human experience, modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.

Responsibilities
  1. Deliver excellence in patient care through assessing, formulating nursing diagnoses, and establishing goals, planning and implementing interventions, and evaluating patient care outcomes.
  2. Participate in and maintain quality, cost-effectiveness, and guest relations.
  3. Provide patient care in compliance with hospital policies and procedures and the standards of professional nursing practice as defined by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.
Essential Key Job Responsibilities
  1. Assessment: Conduct admission and ongoing assessment of patients' conditions, providing nursing care to meet their physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, and notifying doctors of changes in assessment that require attention.
  2. Planning: Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and the transition of care plan to include a safe and appropriate level of care discharge.
  3. Implementation: Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety, knowing patients' conditions and reporting significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician.
  4. Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions, notifying physician as necessary to modify interventions, and adjusting nursing care to meet patients' emerging and changing needs.
  5. Report Skills: Give and receive report using Bedside Shift Report, including family participation, providing an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care.
  6. Environment & Patient Safety: Maintain patient and work environment to maximize safe working space, promptly removing all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate locations.
  7. Supplies: Maintain accurate documentation of charges and supplies used to provide patient care through cost containment measures.
  8. Time Management: Clock in and out appropriately according to policy to ensure work is stated and completed on time.
  9. Documentation: Consistently document in the patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements.
  10. License and Competency: Maintain RN license to practice in the State of Texas, including multi-state licensure requirements, and take responsibility for meeting competency requirements.
  11. Professional Responsibility: Maintain all professional licenses, certifications, and annual competencies prior to deadline, attend mandatory in-services, workshops, town halls, and 75% of all unit meetings per year.
  12. Patient Care: Notify and escalate concerns to appropriate providers of life-threatening changes and notes physician response, effectively applying the nursing process within the framework of the organizations professional model of care.
  13. Patient Experience: Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues, performing hourly rounding and bedside shift report, updating the patient communication board, and providing service recovery as needed.
Qualifications

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) within 2 years from date of hire. Current employees grandfathered before July 2020.

Required Licensure and Certifications: Registered Nurse (RN) License in the State of Texas, Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA).

Required Experience: At least one (1) year of RN experience - Oncology experience, demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Effective Communication, knowledge of the principles and skills of the nursing process to provide patient care and treatment, critical thinking skills, demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills both written and verbal, basic computer skills familiarity with Windows-based software programs.


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