Registered Nurse - Rapid Response

Registered Nurse - Rapid Response (Days)

Apply for the Registered Nurse - Rapid Response (Days) role at FMOL Health.

Job Description
Coordinates and delivers patient care using the health care team philosophy practice model. Coordinates patient teaching and discharge planning. Coordinates activities with ancillary departments. Maintains standards of the department and the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
• Promotes a culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention.
• Maintains a clean and quiet patient environment to ensure a positive patient care experience.
• Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in the scope of the job role or practice.
• Adheres to infection‑control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities.
• Maintains compliance with the organization’s policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards.
• Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service through attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in the Vision, Mission, and Values of the organization.
• Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and TJC standards and/or standards from other accrediting bodies.
• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing functions of patients on the unit.
• Initiates and implements patient care plans.
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to the skill level of employees.
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care.
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to their solutions.
• Creates a working climate that provides growth and job satisfaction of personnel.
• Accurately and promptly implements physicians’ orders.
• Administers medications and intravenous solutions skillfully and correctly.
• Maintains standards of accurate and complete recording and reporting.
• Arranges to have needed supplies and equipment on hand.
• Participates in planning changes and improvements.
• Participates in hospital safety programs.
• Supports and enforces infection‑control policies and procedures.
• Is resourceful and calm in emergencies.
• Participates in orientation and in‑service training for personnel.
• Participates in unit and department performance improvement plans.
• Assists in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Maintains and respects patients’ privacy by maintaining confidentiality of all information regarding patients, families, physicians, and hospital personnel.
• Displays concern and initiative.
• Observes and supports hospital policy.
• Is prompt and efficient with minimal absences.
• Cooperates and maintains good rapport with nursing staff, medical staff, other departments, and visitors.
• Functional demands include prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty; lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds; transferring, repositioning patients; reaching, stooping, bending, kneeing, and crouching for patient care functions; visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties; ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast‑paced environment; ability to pass all required health and other screening tests;
  
  direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply. Personal protective equipment is provided and must be worn.

Qualifications

• Experience:
  
  One year experience as an RN.
• Education:
  
  Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Skills:
  
  Ability to recognize patients’ individual needs based on medical conditions, age groups, limitations and planned procedures; good judgment in delivering patient care; good oral and written communication skills; ability to function in stressful situations; current CPR certification; willingness to rotate shifts, days off and work areas; may occasionally be required to work overtime.
• Licensure:
  Current Mississippi State RN license and current BLS certification.

Seniority level
:
Entry level

Employment type
:
Full‑time

Job function
:
Health Care Provider

Industries
:
Hospitals and Health Care