Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit
San Antonio, TX
TalentBurst, Inc
3x12 hrs, Nights

Title: Travel: RN - Step Down
Location: San Antonio , TX ,78229
Duration: 13  weeks
Shift: Night Shift 
Summary:

The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.

*** Santa Rosa Hospital - Medical Center (CSRH-MC), located in the South Texas Medical Center, provides a high-level of care through compassionate hands, experience physicians, and advanced technology, including the da Vinci Surgical Robot System and the Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted System. Services at the 178- bed facility include Acute Care of the Elderly Unit, cardiology, diabetes care, emergency care, general surgery, kidney transplantation at the *** Transplant Institute, orthopedics, outpatient rehabilitation and aquatic therapy, Senior Behavioral Health Center, urology, and the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center.

Responsibilities:



 Meets expectations of the applicable One*** Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
 Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
 Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
 Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
 Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
 Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

 Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families
 Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members
 Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice
 Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals
 Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s)
 Performs timely reassessment and documentation
 Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population

Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process

 Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow
 Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process
 Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy

Standard III. Unit Operations

 Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift
 Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies
 Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
 Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry

Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

 Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes
 Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities
 Provides evidence-based nursing care
 Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care
 Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry
 Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Clinical Policies and Standards

 Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
 Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance
 Provides feedback for improvement of procedures
 Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures
 Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques

Health Information Documentation

 Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation
 Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records
 Describes the flow of information between various stations or units
 Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation
 Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy
 Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices

Medical Equipment

 Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility
 Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems
 Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment
 Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety
 Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment

Medical Order Processing

 Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions
 Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders
 Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting
 Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders
 Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each

Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation

 Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care
 Reviews patients charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions
 Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff
 Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned
 Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others

Patient Safety

 Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings
 Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings
 Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members
 Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems
 Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others
 Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time



Job Requirements:



Education/Skills

 Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience

 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

 BLS required
 RN License in state of employment or compact
Work Schedule:

12 HR Nights



Work Type:

Full Time