Registered Nurse - ICU (FT Days)

White Rock Medical Center LLC•Dallas, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

White Rock Medical Center is a community-based hospital serving Dallas, Garland, Mesquite, and surrounding areas, specializing in comprehensive medical/surgical care, bariatric, cardiology, outpatient, and emergency medicine. Our mission is to deliver exceptional healthcare with compassion and excellence. We are seeking compassionate, care-minded individuals to join our team, offering opportunities for skill advancement in a supportive, patient-focused environment. We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, employee programs and events, paid time off, company holidays, employer-paid life insurance, and additional voluntary benefits.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing school program.
Current Professional Nurse License issued and/or recognized by Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.
BLS and ACLS.
RNs in residency program must have ACLS by the completion of residency.

Nice To Haves

1-2 years of ICU experience preferred
TNCC a plus

Responsibilities

Accountable for decision making relative to the nursing care of patients on a designated patient care unit during a designated shift.
Functions independently within established hospital and departmental policies and goals in rendering physical and supportive care and health teaching to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Safely manages the environment of care while providing services.
Interacts appropriately with staff, physicians, and other departments in collaborative relationships to meet patient/family needs.
Supervises and delegates appropriately to other licensed and non-licensed staff members in providing care to patients/families.
Utilizes effective communication in interpersonal relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team through verbal, non-verbal, & written methods on a daily basis.
Documents data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes in EMR.
Accurately obtains and records in EMR results of glucose monitoring and ACT Plus analyzer.
Accurately runs controls on glucometer and ACT Plus analyzers and documents QC appropriately. Ensures that control bottles and test cartridges are dated accurately.
Manages patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Administers blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
Competent to transport ICU/Ventilatory patients to radiology and other areas.
Competent to recover patients from OR.
Sets up, operates, or monitors invasive equipment and devices such as smart pumps, epidural pumps, pacemakers, warming and cooling machines, intra-aortic balloon pump, SCD's, mechanical ventilator.
Performs emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
Discusses illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
Advocates for patients' and families' needs or provides emotional support for patients and their families.
Uses critical thinking skills in diagnosing clinical problems and in defining interventions.
Administers medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods (less than 3 errors for the year).
Prioritizes nursing care for assigned critically ill patients based on assessment data and identified needs.
Documents patients' medical histories, med reconciliation and assessment findings on admissions and completes all admission documentation in EMR.
Collaborates with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care.
Provides high-quality care to all patients & coordinates care with interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrates knowledge regarding tissue and organ donation protocols and advanced directives.
Competent to titrate drips including but not limited to sedatives, vaso-active medications, insulin drips, paralytics, anti-arrhythmic medications.
Demonstrates leadership abilities and assumes leadership in the Registered Nurse role through various designated duties on a daily basis.
Initiates, supports, and facilitates the change process within the professional milieu in concert with institutional goals and objectives on an ongoing basis.
Provides preventative skin care and prevention of VAP, DVT, Falls, Infections, etc.
Enters ESRM for wounds POA.
Responds and participates in RRT calls and team leads Code Blues.
Ensures no fall out with Core measures.
Completes daily dashboard sheets for requirements of ICU care per protocols.
Competent to assist physician at bedside with procedures.
Competent to pull femoral arterial, venous sheaths, chest tubes, swan ganz, arterial lines, central venous catheters according to protocol.