Charge Registered Nurse, NICU - PRN, Nights

Texas Health Resources•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Are you looking for a rewarding career with family-friendly hours and top-notch benefits? We’re looking for qualified Charge Registered Nurses like you to join our Texas Health family. This position is located at Texas Health Dallas in the NICU unit and operates on a PRN basis with night shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM. Texas Health Dallas is an 898-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving the community since 1966. The hospital offers a wide range of services including cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women’s services, and emergency medicine. It is recognized as a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, an accredited Cycle IV Chest Pain Center, a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Care Center, a Level II Major Trauma facility, and a designated Magnet hospital. As part of the Texas Health family, which employs over 24,000 employees, this role contributes to providing outstanding care and delivering award-winning results.

Requirements

Diploma in Nursing required or Associate's Degree Nursing required
1 Year of experience as a clinical nurse in an acute care setting required
RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire (Required)
BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support Upon Hire (Required)
NRP – Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 90 days required
NRPA – Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 90 days required
CPI – Crisis Prevention Intervention training within 90 days and maintained annually required

Nice To Haves

BSN (preferred)
2 years of experience as a clinical nurse in an acute care setting preferred

Responsibilities

Communicate and collaborate with all members of the health care team.
Support and actively participate in shared governance/councils.
Be committed to developing individual knowledge and skills, as well as advancing the profession of nursing and engaging in lifelong learning/development.
Assist leadership on a particular unit or units and shift, by offering staff guidance and support, maintaining a clean and safe work environment and ensuring unit operational tasks are completed.
Demonstrate Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
Demonstrate Conflict Management: Understanding of how to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to diverse situations.
Demonstrate Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Demonstrate Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches, tools, and techniques for dealing with changes and adapting to a changing environment; ability to adapt as needed.
Demonstrate Delegation: Understanding of the need to effectively delegate tasks to others and the ability to empower and motivate associates to take over tasks and responsibilities to accomplish results for which the manager maintains ultimate accountability.
Demonstrate Customer Interaction: Knowledge of the principles and techniques of communicating with a customer; ability to utilize practices, tools, and techniques for customer interaction.
Demonstrate Patient Safety: Knowledge of and experience with tools, techniques and practices for ensuring a safe and harm-free environment for patients; ability to recognize risks and take steps to minimize them.
Demonstrate Care Coordination: Knowledge of the medical, social, economic, and other services provided by other departments or facilities, and the ability to integrate these multidisciplinary treatments for optimal patient care.
Demonstrate Clinical Policies and Standards: Knowledge of all clinical standards and policies set for a healthcare environment; ability to use industry standards, policies and procedures in the processes of clinical practice.
Demonstrate Patient Rights: Knowledge of principles and practices associated with the rights and responsibilities of patients and caregivers; ability to apply these theories to identify, report, deal with and prevent patient rights violations.