RN ICU Nights

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse (RN) 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.

RN job is used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include on‑call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.

• Clinical Judgment:
  Using clinical reasoning, conduct accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identify and prioritize patient and family needs. Develop, implement and evaluate the nursing plan of care. Modify plan to meet clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry:
  Systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including nursing sensitive indicators. Support evidence‑based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participate in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices:
  Create a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develop therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintain appropriate boundaries. Manage emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity:
  Recognize, appreciate and incorporate 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:
  Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represent their concerns. Create an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identify and help resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning:
  Facilitate learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assess and document learning needs and outcomes.
• Collaboration:
  
  Work collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegate tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensure timely follow‑up.
• Systems Thinking:
  Use strategies and available resources for problem‑solving for patients, family and staff. Recognize that resources are limited and consider factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
• Professionalism:
  Improve nursing practice and work environment through participating in shared governance and decision‑making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participate in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identify personal goals and commit to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self‑study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees.
  
  Contribute to the professional development peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrate commitment to community service.

• Knowledge and…