RN Float-Surgical Services, Full Time, Days

3 weeks ago

Decatur Alabama, United States Huntsville Hospital Health System Full time
Overview:
Job Summary:

 While demonstrating through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values, the Registered Nurse serves as a leader of the healthcare team at Decatur Morgan Hospital and the Huntsville Hospital Health System by establishing an authentic personalized relationship with the patient and their chosen support system, collaborating with physicians and other team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care that promotes optimal health or supports a peaceful death.  The RN utilizes the best scientific evidence and compassion to assist the patient in navigating their health journey.  The RN accepts responsibility, authority and accountability for management and provision of care in accordance with the current policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities / Essential Functions

Caregiver:  The caregiver role has traditionally included those activities that assist the patient’s physical and psychologically while preserving the patient’s dignity.  Caregiving encompasses the physical, psychosocial, developmental, cultural and spiritual needs of the patient.

Communicator: Communication is an integral to all nursing roles. Nurses communicate with the patient, support persons, other health professionals, and people in the community. In the role of communicator, nurses identify patient problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team. The quality of a nurse’s communication is an important factor in nursing care.

Teacher: As a teacher, the nurse helps patients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health. The nurse assesses the patient’s learning needs and readiness to learn, sets specific learning goals in conjunction with the patient, enacts teaching strategies and measures learning.

Patient Advocate:  Patient advocate acts to protect the patient.  In this role the nurse may represent the patient’s needs and wishes to other health professionals, such as relaying the patient’s wishes for information to the physician. They also assist patients in exercising their rights and help them speak up for themselves.

Counselor:  Counseling is a process of helping a patient to recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth. It involves providing emotional, intellectual, and psychological support.

Change Agent:  The nurse acts as a change agent when assisting others, that is, patients, to make modifications in their own behavior. Nurses also often act to make changes in a system such as clinical care.

Leader:  A leader influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal. The leader role can be employed at different levels; individual patient, family, groups of patients, colleagues, or the community. Effective leadership is a learned process requiring an understanding of the needs and goals that motivate people, the knowledge to apply the leadership skills, and the interpersonal skills to influence others.

Research consumer – nurses often use research to improve patient care. In a clinical area nurses need to: 

Have some awareness of the process and language of research

Participate in identification of significant researchable problems

Be a perceptive consumer of research findings

Collaborate with the healthcare team

Safety Officer:  The nurse’s primary commitment is to the health, well-being, and safety of the patient across the life span and in all settings in which health care needs are addressed.  Safety is an essential and vital component of quality care.

Qualifications:

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Experience Required:

Uses common sense and special medical skills to care for the sick

Understands technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals and labels

Uses eyes, ears, hands and fingers with skill

Acts quickly in an emergency, rendering appropriate life-saving measures

Communicates with people

Change from one duty to another frequently

Follow and/or give precise instructions

Records and interprets information accurately

Able to care for patients of all ages

Current in BLS

 

Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job.  Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.

 

Reasoning Development:                                

Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.  Deals with several abstract and concrete variables.

 

Mathematical Development:

Practical application of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion in addition to basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division abilities.

 

Language Development:          

Reading: Read scientific and technical journals, abstracts, and financial reports.  Records data via paper and electronic means. 

 

Speaking:

Communicates verbally using effective voice tone, diction and medical terminology.

 

 

RELATIONSHIPS TO DATA, PEOPLE AND THINGS:

 

Data:                           

Gathers, complies and classifies information about patients and other people.  Analyzes and interprets data to carry out plan of care for the patient.

 

People:                       

Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information.  Includes giving directions to staff, patients, families and/or visitors.

 

Things:                                      

                                 Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment.

 

Education:  Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.  Possesses a nursing license in good standing in the State of Alabama. BSN preferred but not required.

 

Experience: OR Experience - 5 years preferred, 3 years required.

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