Registered Nurse (RN II) Radiology Full Time

#REF!•Denton, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time Registered Nurse (RN II) position in Radiology. The role requires a strong understanding of basic human needs, human respect, appreciation of unique meanings, affiliation needs, mutual problem solving, attentive reassurance, encouraging manner, and creating a healing environment. The nurse will be responsible for providing safe patient care, collaborating with healthcare team members, participating in shared decision-making, and engaging in professional development.

Requirements

1 Year Experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an RN residency program
RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire
BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly
ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support 90 Days
A high degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills, and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Associate's Degree Nursing
Bachelor's Degree Nursing

Responsibilities

Provides safe patient care as evidenced by using barcode medication verification (BMV) during medication administrations, completing accurate documentation in the electronic health record, completing assessments accurately and in a timely manner, individualizing care plans specific to the needs of the patient, and providing consistent attention to airway, intake, elimination, sleep, rest, mobility and hygiene needs.
Honors worth of humans through unconditional acceptance by handling of the body with care, demonstrating knowledge of patient rights and incorporating into daily practice, calling patients by their preferred name, demonstrating use of eye contact and physical contact appropriately, and speaking respectfully and professionally in a soothing tone.
Understands others' frame of reference by using active listening, exemplifying a non-judgmental attitude, tolerating both positive and negative ideas or expressions, demonstrating flexibility, eliciting patient values and preferences, and developing personal relationships with patients/significant others.
Engages family/caregivers in health care situations by demonstrating knowledge of individual patient's family situation and routines, demonstrating knowledge of family theories, being responsive to families, engaging family members in health decisions per patients' wishes, allowing family members' presence, involving family, conducting routine family meetings, sharing available resources with families, and establishing, maintaining and discontinuing appropriately therapeutic relationships with patients/families.
Engages in mutual problem solving by providing information using up-to-date literature and approved tools including EMMI, demonstrating knowledge of patient's unique learning approach, validating patient knowledge through use of teach back method, accepting feedback from patients and adopting patient ideas, prioritizing and individualizing care delivery based on professional judgment, and using listening skills and demonstrating knowledge of how to engage others.
Demonstrates attentive reassurance by being optimistic, accessible to patients and families, available and re-confirming that availability, confident; demonstrating assertiveness knowledge, reassuring, self-reliant and demonstrating self-knowledge, and clarifying misperceptions using HEART as needed.
Communicates an attitude that is supportive, open, positive and tolerant by demonstrating knowledge and effective use of THR communication tools (HEART, Error Prevention Tools: Speak up for Safety, Question and Resolve), supportive verbal and non-verbal demeanor, enthusiasm, positive feedback, supportive view of the system, and empowering, inspiring behaviors.
Creates settings that provide privacy, safety, confidentiality and tranquility by establishing a safe environment, using frequent checks/surveillance including national patient safety goals (NPSG), providing safety information and associated teach-backs, validating the call system is in place, completing accurate, timely and comprehensive hand offs, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, ensuring clean and pleasant surroundings, demonstrating knowledge of and effectively using Error Prevention safety/communications tools, demonstrating knowledge of current evidence related to prevention of adverse outcomes, using safety enhancing technologies recognizing the benefits and limitations of them, and demonstrating understanding of the ethical standard, fidelity.
Communicates and collaborates with all members of the health care team by delegating effectively by making efficient use of staff time and expertise, using SBAR format in communicating with physicians and other interdisciplinary team members, using hand off communication tool and/or processes appropriately for any change in caregivers across shifts and departments, identifying patient needs and coordinating care and resources to facilitate patient throughput/flow, managing up other team members, intra and inter-departmentally looking for opportunities to positively recognize co-workers to leaders, patients, families and team, demonstrating flexibility and helping co-workers when needed, and following attendance commitments by being timely and reliable.
Incorporates Error Prevention Tools into practice and participates in High Reliability organizational training.
Promotes a cost effective team by demonstrating judicious use of resources including supplies, products and equipment, identifying ineffective and costly practices and providing suggestions for improvement, and incorporating innovation and technology in daily practice to enhance efficiencies.
Leads by example by giving priority to doing the right thing for patient care.
Adapts to changes in workload by demonstrating flexibility related to patient needs, staffing and patient acuity.
Actively participates in the Shared Governance model at unit, entity, and/or system level.
Actively engages in finding solutions for unit, division and/or entity concerns or issues by participating in process improvement activities at the unit, entity and/or system level and seeking innovative ideas or promoting evidenced based practice changes among team.
Uses multiple available tools to stay informed of changes, updates and communications by reading and responding to email as requested, reviewing meeting minutes when unable to attend in person, and meeting staff meeting attendance participation rates as per department standard.
Demonstrates the ability to respectfully listen to others' opinions.
Collaborates with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to promote safe individualized care by acceptable use of SBAR when communicating and supporting interdisciplinary meetings such as daily care briefings, rounds, family conferences and support groups for optimal patient outcomes.
Promotes the Magnet and/or Pathways to Excellence standards throughout the organization.
Participates in change and seeks opportunities for professional and personal growth by actively engaging in peer to peer review, willingly accepting feedback from colleagues including peers, leaders and other disciplines, and utilizing feedback to seek opportunities for advancing professional growth.
Understands, promotes, and values evidence-based practices, quality improvement, and/or research, and utilizes them in practice by following guidelines and recommendations defined by regulatory or professional practice agencies and providing daily care that achieves outcome targets for Reliable Care Blueprints, NPSG, employee satisfaction, patient and family experience, NDNQI and other unit/organizational metrics.
Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning and development by maintaining annual competencies, attending in-services and training useful to area of practice, and sharing with peers evidence based practice updates, policy changes, new technology and other pertinent information from conferences or meetings.
Demonstrates a commitment to advancing the professional practice of nursing by incorporating ethical principles from the ANA Code of Ethics, adhering to the Nursing Practice Act, identifying realistic and measurable goals at least annually, identifying and participating in a standardized system tool for Self-Assessment and Evaluation, Peer to Peer feedback, and professional goal development/career planning, and participating in advancing professional practice as evidenced by advancing education, certification, NCAP participation for eligible nursing staff, professional organization membership, or other as described in employee comments.