Nurse: Emergency Room

Overview

"Must Have" Skills for this Job: 1. Minimum College: Associate Degree, Diploma in Nursing, or BSN. 2. Current RN licensure in Texas or compact state required, 3. Current BLS certified required. 4. Acute care experience preferred. Management experience. 5. Reads and writes Basic English with the basic skills necessary to transfer physician's orders. 6. Knowledge of body substance isolation. 7. Ability to listen, empathize and respond to patient, family, internal and external part To provide professional nursing care to patients utilizing the nursing process. To collaborate with other members of the health care delivery team including physicians, to deliver quality health care. Job Duties: 1. Demonstrates knowledge and application of the nursing process. 2. Participates and cooperates in the unit based Quality Improvement processes. 3. Supports, maintains and provides an environment which is supportive of quality patient care through effective use of resources and personnel. 4. Practices, develops and endorses customer service skills in relationships with internal and external customers. 5. Serves as the patient and family advocate with respect to the patients right to privacy by protecting confidential information. 6. Plans and implements patient care and teaching based on a total assessment and the age of the patient. 7. Evaluates and documents patient response; monitors and recognizes changes in physiological and psychosocial status; takes appropriate action based on assessment of the patient. 8. Accompanies Level 1 Trauma patients transported to University Hospital in accordance with physician orders.

Benefits

Company

One of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprised of locally managed facilities that include hundreds of hospitals and freestanding surgery centers located across the United States.