RN ICU Mixed PRN

Description

The Registered Nurse (RN) Unit PRN is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays.

The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.

• Clinical Judgment:
  Uses clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards, identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs, develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care, and modifies the plan to meet clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry:
  Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning, and participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices:
  Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff, develops therapeutic relationships, and manages both emotional and physical pain to promote comfort and healing.
• Response to Diversity:
  Recognizes, and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency:
  Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family, represents their concerns, and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning:
  Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrates appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments.
• Collaboration:
  
  Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care, delegates tasks and ensures timely follow-up.
• Systems Thinking:
  Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff, considering safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
• Professionalism:
  Improves nursing practice and the work environment through shared governance and decision-making processes, participates in staffing processes, commits to ongoing professional growth, and contributes to the professional development of peers.

• Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures, laws, rules and regulations, and hospital/unit protocols.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management, medication principles, dosages, effects and adverse reactions.
• Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with a wide range of constituencies.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to observe changes in patients' medical condition and communicate these changes to nursing staff, physicians and providers.
• Ability to provide age‑specific, quality, patient‑centered care through the nursing process with sensitivity to diversity.
• General computer skills, including Microsoft Office, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation and email.

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar‑for‑dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1 (note: benefits may vary by position type and/or level)

• Education
  :
  Graduate of an accredited RN program or 2 years of work experience above the minimum qualification.
• Experience
  : 1 year of experience as a registered nurse.
• Certification / License / Registration
  :
  Registered Nurse (RN) and Basic Life Support (BLS) – certification required or must obtain BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.

As the largest not‑for‑profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health was formed by the 2013 combination of Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare. The system includes 52 hospitals, more than 1,300 care sites, over 57,000 employees and the Baylor Scott & White Health Plan.