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Registered Nurse (RN) III Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) FT Nights

HCA Healthcare

San Antonio, TX 78205

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SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)

SCHEDULE: Full-time

MetropolitanMethodist Hospital

Center City San Antonio is the backdrop for a vibrant anddiverse community of patients served by Metropolitan Methodist Hospital. Our 354bed hospital offers outstanding heart and cancer care, general surgery,neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology services, inpatientand outpatient rehabilitation services, sleep disorder evaluation and thelargest emergency room in downtown San Antonio. Our Suzell Waller Women’spavilion, the only stand-alone facility in downtown San Antonio dedicated tothe health of women and their newborn babies, has earned an excellentreputation, one baby at a time.

Metropolitan Methodist Hospital has been recognized byModern Healthcare as a Best Place to Work in Healthcare and for the thirdconsecutive year as a Leader in LGBTHealthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. Weare pleased to announce it is the first hospital in San Antonio to achievePathway to Excellence designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.We have also been nationally recognized by Leapfrog for our focus on safety andquality, receiving a Grade A Hospital Safety Score for 5 consecutive ratingperiods, as well as Leapfrog’s Top General Hospital award in 2017. For moreinformation, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and selectMetropolitan Methodist Hospital under Locations.

SICUHighlights:

24-bed intensive care unit
Caring for non-trauma, high acuity medical and surgical patients including interventions such as CABG, Impella and SLED
24/7 coverage by highly engaged critical care physicians
1:1 mentorship with supportive, experienced staff
Facility Code Blue and Rapid Response Team
Many opportunities and educational resources including national certification support, tuition reimbursement and clinical ladder

The Registered Nurse (RN) III 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).

Essential Job Functions:

Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process, to include:
1. Assessment: Conducts ongoing focused physical, psychosocial, and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
2. 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.
3. Implementation: Prioritizes and implements an efficient nursing plan of care.
4. Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluations, 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.
Collaborates with patient care team members on patient care plan, incorporating consistent use of hand-off communication and SBAR communication methods.
Prioritizes tasks and adjusts priorities when necessary. Maintains an orderly, efficient, and timely flow of patients. Recognizes and reports errors or unusual occurrences, and initiates corrective action when appropriate.
Makes accurate, complete, and timely entries into the patient medical record addressing all steps of the nursing process. Actively communicates with members of the healthcare team, patient, and patient family.
Maintains current nursing knowledge to assure a safe working environment.

Qualifications

EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED:

Required: Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.
Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Minimum License, Certificates, or Registrations Required:

ALL of the following:
1) Minimum of twelve (12) months clinical experience working as RN in specialty area of hire.
2) Approved for and maintains requirements of the MHS Nursing Clinical Excellence program RN level III.

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