Registered Nurse- Cardio Vascular Unit-

Company: Methodist Hospital Metropolitan
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: October 18, 2020

Job Description:

Description

SHIFT: Days (rotating weekends)

SCHEDULE: Full-time

Here at Methodist Healthcare, our everyday decisions are founded on compassion. Apply today and join a team that is dedicated to serving others in need.

With over 370 beds Methodist Hospital Metropolitan offers outstanding heart and cancer care, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology services, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, sleep disorder evaluation and the largest emergency room in downtown San Antonio. Our women?s pavilion is the only stand-alone center city facility dedicated to the health of women and their newborn babies, welcoming nearly 4,000 newborns into the world each year. Methodist Hospital Metropolitan is home to the Methodist Weight Loss Center and has been designated an American Society for Metabolic Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence®.

We offer you a generous benefits package including:

Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance

401 K Retirement

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off

Employee Discount Program

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Tuition Reimbursement

The  Registered Nurse (RN) II  is the patient and patient?s family advocate. The RN consistently applies and utilizes the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients. The RN collaborates with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes. Communicates and utilizes interpersonal skills effectively and role models confidence and professionalism within nursing by active engagement in unit and organizational activities. Demonstrates team work, adaptability, and is a resource person to the patient care team. The RN is accountable for the quality of nursing care services delivered by self or others under their direction in accordance with the Texas Nurse Practice Act, hospital policies, and the Texas Board of Nursing rules for delegated nursing tasks (Chapter 224).   Promotes a positive image of nursing and demonstrates team work and adaptability through consistently following the standards of Methodist Excellence.

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Metro

CVTS/CVPCU

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Number of beds? CVTS 29/CVPCU 6, Total of 35

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Patient to nurse ratio? CVTS 1:5, CVPCU 1:3

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PCT?s on your unit? Ratio? 2-3 day shift, 2

night shift

·   Patients cared for are Cardiac Telemetry,

Pre/Post Cath Lab, Patients with Cardiac Dx., Intermediate Cardiac Patients

·   The

team reports the best part of working on the unit is how supportive the

team is.

There

are many opportunities for growth on this unit. Nurses start on CVTS

side, depending on skills will also work in CVPCU)                                                                         ·

Critical factors to your success include:

Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process to include:

? Assessment: Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.

? Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care.

? Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.

? Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.

Qualifications

Job Requirements: You should be a graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program. If you have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or certification in your specialty area you will be considered more highly qualified and eligible for our RN III position.

You should possess your RN License to practice as a professional RN in the state of Texas or an Active Multi-State RN Compact License. If you have a Compact License you will be required to obtain a Texas RN License within 90 days of hire.

You should have a current BLS and ACLS certification

You should have 6 months of clinical experience as a licensed RN in the specialty area of hire.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are actively interviewing so apply today!

sylvia.melancon@hcahealthcare.com recruiter

We are an equal opportunity employer and value

diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race,

religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital

status, veteran status, or disability status.

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