Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg
North Mississippi Health Services
Tupelo, MS

**JOB SUMMARY**

The BSN Registered Nurse at North Mississippi Health Services, Inc is a licensed registered nurse who is baccalaureate prepared and has taken courses on role development, nursing leadership, and nursing practice to strengthen their clinical decision-making skills. The BSN RN enters into direct patient care as an ADVANCE RN Level II, and has education and experiences that enable the recognition of recurrent and meaningful components of a situation, knowledge and know-how, advance planning and organizational skills. The BSN RN is responsible for providing safe, quality patient care using the nursing process, anticipating needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness,  maintaining effective communication with the multidisciplinary team, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The BSN RN role requires leadership skills in prioritizing, delegating, promoting teamwork, maximizing resouces, evaluating work assignments, effective problem-solving abilities to respond to changing patient needs, and raising the awareness of evidence-based nursing practice and nursing research

 

**JOB** **FUNCTIONS**

Clinical Practice:

* Uses the nursing process to provide safe, quality patient care, anticipates needs, recognizes recurrent and meaninful components of a situation, has knowledge and know-how to address the situation, and documents accordingly.
* Has effective problem-solving abilities to respond to the changing patient needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness.
* Works to ensure compliance with all NMHS policies and requirements as directed by the Nurse Manager and Educator.

Education:

* Educates patient and their family about their medical conditions and treatment.
* Participates in Preceptor Class during first year of employment.
* Upon completion of preceptor course and validation of competencies, serves as resource and/or preceptor for existing staff.
* Serves as a Preceptor to ensure proper training of new employees
* Serves as a Preceptor for nursing students to support their knowledge base and development of clinical skills, as well as critical decision making.
* Assists in training new Preceptors and validating new Preceptors’s competencies.
* Supports in raising the awareness of evidence-based nursing practice within the nursing team.

Communication:

* Maintains effective communication with multidisciplinary team members to provide holistic care to the patient.
* Maintains effective, efficient communication with medical staff pertaining to their patients and changes in the patient conditions.
* Attends daily huddles on each unit to ensure proper assignments and identify team members for the shift.

Customer Relations:

* Projects caring, friendly and helpful image to patients and other customers.
* Utilized the patient’s communication board (white board) to identify name, date, goals, other staff and procedures or test for the day to keep the patients and families informed.
* Consistently complies with the NMHS behavioral standards.

Self-Development/Professional Development:

* Maintains competency by staying informed of changing trends in the nursing practice.
* Actively participates in and supports in leading unit specific education in coordination with the Nurse Manager or Educator.
* Attends annual review and unit specifics within the department and has skills t
* o assist with training.
* Performs required continuing education hours online and in classroom.Continued professional development and participation in the ADVANCE program is encouraged.

 Regulatory Knowledge:

* Complies with regulatory and accrediting agency requirements.
* Licensed by the Board of Nursing for the State.

 

 

 

 

**QUALIFICATIONS**

 

 **Education**

 

 

**Education Level**

**Education Details**

**Required/Preferred**

 

 

Bachelor's Degree

Registred Nurse

Required


 

 

Other (Experience)

Complete RN Orientation and approved unit specific checklist requirements

Required


 

 


**Licenses and Certifications**
 

 

 

 

**Licenses and Certifications**

**Licenses and Certifications Details**

**Time Frame**

**Required/**
**Preferred**

 

 

RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure

Must be licensed to practice as a RN

At time of commencement of work with facility

Required

 

 

CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation

Must maintain a current ACR or AHA CPR Certification

At time of commencement of work with facility

Required

 

 

ACLS

Requirement is dependent on hiring department

At time of commencement of work with facility

Required

 

 

PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Requirement is dependent on hiring department

At time of commencement of work with facility

Required

 

 

 

ASLS Certified for Emergency Room

At time of commencement of work with facility

Required

 

 

 

TB Certified is dependent on hiring department

Upon Hire

Required

 

 

 

NIH - National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification

At time of commencement of work with facility

Preferred

 


**Work Experience**

 

 

 

**Number of Years**

**Work Experience Details**

**Required/**
**Preferred**

 

 

 

 

 


**Knowledge Skills and Abilities**
 

 

 

 

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**

**Required/Preferred**

**Proficiency**

Baccalaureate prepared which includes courses on role development, nursing leadership, and nursing practice to strengthen their clinical decision-making skills.

Required

N/A

Has education and experiences that enable the recognition of recurrent and meaningful components of a situation, knowledge and know-how, advance planning and organizational skills

Required

N/A

Serves as a resource for existing staff and new employees.

Required

N/A

Has effective problem-solving abilities to respond to the changing patient needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness,

Required

N/A

Supports in raising the awareness of evidence-based nurisng practice with the nursing team.

Required

N/A

Maintains department requirements for continuing education and any specific unit requirements to provide appropriate age specific care

Required

N/A

Maintains  effective communication and teaching skills

Required

N/A

Has general working knowledge of various regulatory and accrediting standards

Required

N/A

Has leadership skills in, delegating, promoting teamwork, anticipating needs, prioritizing and maximizing resouces, and evaluating work assignments

Required

N/A

Assimilates data and reports appropriately

Required

N/A

Orients new employees to the unit and reports progress to charge nurse or nurse manager

Required

N/A

Has routine contact with physicians, ancillary personnel, other nursing personnel, patients, family, visitors

Required

N/A

Must demonstrate effective interpersonal skills to all customers/co-workers, and in all aspects of patient care and job performance

Required

N/A

Serves as a Preceptor to ensure proper training of new employees

Required

N/A

Serves as a Preceptor for student nurses to support their knowledge base and development of clinical skills, as well as critical decision making.

Required

N/A

Assists in training new Preceptors and validating new Preceptors competencies

Required

N/A

Serves as a resource for existing staff and new employees

Required

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



**SCOPE**
**Freedom To Act:**
**Problem Solving:**
**Impact:**
**Financial Responsibility:**

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* Controllable Expenses (e.g., Payroll and other budgeted items):
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**Budget Responsibility**

* Primary Budget Responsibility:
* Shared Budget Responsibility: