Health Services Part-time Nurse
Company: CHRISTUS Health
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: April 26, 2024
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Job Description:
Provides 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.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - Westover Hills (CSRH-WH) is a
150-bed hospital serving the fastest growing area of San Antonio.
Specialized care includes orthopedic and surgical services, ICU,
women's services, a newborn nursery, comprehensive cardiovascular
care from diagnostics to open heart surgery, vascular lab, sleep
center, emergency services, the CHRISTUS Weight Loss Institute,
wound care, rehabilitation, and more. The campus also boasts an
Outpatient Imaging Center and three medical plazas, one of which
houses our CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program
and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Health Center.
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
--- Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care
given
--- Assess learning needs and provides education to patients,
family members and/or care givers; Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing
Process
--- Spiritual, and development needs of patient and families
--- Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team
members
--- Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to
meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
--- Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors
and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals
--- Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and
the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
--- Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the
specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient
population
Unit Operations
--- Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and
functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift
--- Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of
equipment and Supplies
--- Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and
regulations within the industry.
Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
--- Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality
improvement activities
--- Provides evidence-based nursing care
--- Communicates patient information effectively across the
continuum of care
--- Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and
regulations within the industry.
--- Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws
and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare
practices and activities.
Clinical Policies and Standards
--- Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures
organizational compliance
--- Assists in the development and implementation of specific
procedures
--- Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and
techniques
Health Information Documentation
--- Describes the flow of information between various stations or
units
--- Discusses the functions, features and document flow of
electronic documentation
--- 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
--- Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient
charts for patients on unit and under own care
--- Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical
staff
--- Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near
misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and
reporting in real-time.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred.
1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty
preferred.
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.
Current AWHONN Intermediate Instructor led EFM course at time of
hire for experienced RNs or within 6 months of hire for new
graduate nurses and maintain AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced EFM
course certification thereafter.
Part Time
If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our
website or need assistance completing the application process,
please contact us at (844) 257-6925.
Keywords: CHRISTUS Health, San Antonio , Health Services Part-time Nurse, Healthcare , San Antonio, Texas
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