Registered Nurse I - Cardiac Telemetry Heart Failure

Saint Francis Health System

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse I provides nursing care on the Cardiac Telemetry Heart Failure service. The role assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care using the nursing process and hospital standards and unit policies and procedures to monitor and evaluate patients’ functional status. This is an ECB-status position requiring a minimum number of worked hours per month as needed by the department, with limited benefit offerings. The schedule is 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., with variable hours including rotating weekends. The position is based at Cardiology Services General B, Yale Campus, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been identified as safety-sensitive under Oklahoma law.

Requirements

Complete the basic professional curriculum of a school of nursing approved and verified by a state board of nursing, and hold or be entitled to hold a diploma or degree from that school.
Hold a valid multistate or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse license.
Have 0–6 months of related experience.
Have working knowledge of general disease-state management processes, the biopsychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
Have effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Be able to organize and prioritize work effectively and efficiently.
Be detail-oriented when examining clinical and numerical data.

Responsibilities

Use the nursing process to provide patient care.
Assess, organize, and complete patient care while considering patients’ age, cultural background, and psychosocial factors.
Document the steps of the nursing process and use appropriate medical terminology.
Address patient problems and progress toward goals.
Facilitate patient discharge through timely, appropriate referrals and patient education resources suited to the patient’s age and cultural and psychosocial factors.
Collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate.
Support unit and hospital goals through performance improvement and educational activities, including attending in-services, meeting unit education standards, and completing variance reports.