Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Seasonal Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $35-55 per hour
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: College Station
Posted on: May 21, 2023
Job Description:
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN)
Seasonal Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a nursing job in
College Station, Texas.Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Permanent
Now Hiring Seasonal RNs!!
What is a Seasonal RN?
- 13 week commitment (1 week Orientation/ 12 weeks on the
unit)
- 36 hrs. per week
- $51/hr. plus shift differentials
- $3,000 Sign-on bonus plus $1,500 completion bonus
Facility:--Baylor Scott and White Hospital- College Station, TX
Department: Intermediate Care Unit/Telemetry
Schedule:--Night Shift (7pm-7am) or Day Shift (7am-7pm)
Patient Population:--Adult Cardiac, Stroke, Multi-organ
dysfunction
# of beds:--40 (16 IMCU, 24 Telemetry)
Patient Ratios: 1:4 or 1:5
Baylor Scott & White Health College Station is a private,
non-profit, 143-bed, multi-specialty hospital. The Medical Center
is a certified advanced primary stroke center, a certified chest
pain center as well as a Level III Trauma Center. We also have the
only Level III NICU designation in Brazos Valley. Additionally, we
have achieved the American Nurse Credentialing Center Magnet
Designation. This is a hospital that works for you and exceeds all
expectations! Don't just take our word for it, let us show you a
career that's worth bragging about.--
We welcome applicants who will serve faithfully, act honestly,
never settle, and recognize that we are in it together to deliver
world-class healthcare.
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) Seasonal 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.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
- Clinical Judgment: Using 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. Modifies plan to meet clinical
outcomes.
- Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and
effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to,
nursing delicate indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes
through research utilization and experiential learning.
Participates in quality/performance improvement
initiatives.
- Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe and
therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops
therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains
appropriate boundaries. Manages both fervid
- and physical pain with the aim of promoting relief and healing
and preventing unnecessary suffering.
- Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates 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
and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that
accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies
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; integrating appropriate education throughout the
continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed
conclusions about their health care and treatments, including
health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents
learning needs and outcomes.
- Partnership: Works collaboratively and interdependently with
colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated
plan of care. Open and delicate to all team members unique
contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and
ensures timely follow-up.
- Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for
problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that
resources are limited and considers factors related to safety,
effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient
care.
- Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work
environment through participating in mutual governance and
conclusion-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the
contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from
education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and
fulfills 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.
Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues
and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
- Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards
and procedures.
- Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and
guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and
department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures
governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of
assignment.
- Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of
health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention
and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their
physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse
reactions.
- Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and
patient privacy rights.
- Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and
in writing.
- Social skills to interact with a wide-range of
constituencies.
- Must have critical thinking and problem-solving
skills.
- Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients
and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff
members and physicians/providers.
- Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care
to all patients through the nursing process and standards of
nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human
experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary,
modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate
patients.
- General computer skills, including but not limited to:
Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll
systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
QUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program- MAJOR -
Nursing- EXPERIENCE - 1 Year of Experience-
CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - --------------Registered Nurse
(RN)--------------Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30
days of hire or transfer.Recruiter: Lindsay TrippBaylor Scott and
White Job ID #23010015. Posted job title: RN Seasonal IMCU
TelemetryAbout Baylor Scott & White HealthAs the largest
not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas, Baylor Scott &
White promotes the health and well-being of every individual,
family and community it serves. It is committed to making quality
care more accessible, convenient and affordable through its
integrated delivery network, which includes the Baylor Scott &
White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, the
Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance and its leading digital
health platform - MyBSWHealth. Through 51 hospitals and more than
1,100 access points, including flagship academic medical centers in
Dallas, Fort Worth and Temple, the system offers the full continuum
of care, from primary to award-winning specialty care. Founded as a
Christian ministry of healing more than a century ago, Baylor Scott
& White today serves more than three million Texans.Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- Continuing Education
- 401k retirement plan
- Wellness and fitness programs
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Benefits start day 1
- Life insurance
- Discount program
Keywords: Baylor Scott & White Health, College Station , Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Seasonal Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $35-55 per hour, Healthcare , College Station, Texas
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