Registered Nurse (RN) - Internal Medicine

Planned Systems International•Killeen, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

QuarterLine (QL), a Planned Systems International (PSI) Company, is seeking skilled Registered Nurse (RN) candidates with expertise in Internal Medicine for a position at the Ft Hood medical center. This role is crucial in supporting high-quality patient care across multispecialty clinical settings. Responsibilities include assessing patients, administering medications and treatments, coordinating referrals, assisting with procedures, and accurately documenting care in the electronic health record. The ideal candidate will possess recent hands-on nursing experience, sound clinical judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, providers, and multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should be adaptable to flexible shifts based on mission needs, which may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, training holidays, and federal holidays. This opportunity is ideal for a dependable RN who values patient-centered care, professionalism, continuity of care, and service within a mission-focused military treatment facility.

Requirements

US Citizen
Associates Degree of Nursing.
Graduate from a college or university accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
One (1) year of clinical or inpatient experience, post-education/graduation and post-licensure, within the last two (2) years providing direct care in multispecialty inpatient or outpatient clinical settings.
Experience must demonstrate recent hands-on proficiency in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nurse care for patients across diverse medical and surgical specialties in accordance with current professional nursing standards.
Professional Certification(s): Internal Medicine: ACLS, BLS
Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Registered Nurse.
Basic Life Support (BLS) by AHA or American Red Cross.

Responsibilities

Coordinate patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals.
Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality and cost effectiveness.
Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the MTF.
Perform physical exam and health histories.
Provide health promotions, counseling, and education.
Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized interventions.
Direct and supervise care provided by other healthcare professionals.
Accountable for making patient care assignments based on the scope of practice and skill level of assigned personnel.
Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as appropriate.
Perform nursing services identified in the TO.
Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes.
Perform independent, comprehensive telephone, clinical triaging, and facilitate care throughout multidisciplinary locations.
Act as relief nurse, triage, and screen walk-in patients to assess the severity of the patient’s condition and need for provider intervention.
Communicate with other providers regarding determinations and situations relating to direct patient care.
Screen patient charts to assess medical history to determine healthcare needs.
Make psychosocial assessments of patients to identify significant cultural practices, ability to understand and cooperate, and expectations of care and coping mechanisms.
Execute and/or ensure the completion of orders from health care providers.
Recognize and report abnormal test results, changes in symptoms, and the need for follow-up.
Record required data in patient charts.
Assist health care providers with examinations and procedures.
Educate patients for high risk, painful, or stressful procedures with education and support.
Monitor or ensure the monitoring of patients pre, during, and post procedures per CRDAMC MTF guidelines.
Assess post-procedure patients prior to their release from the clinic.
Monitor patients pre, during, and post procedures.
Assess post-procedures prior to release from clinic.
Prepare and administer oral, subcutaneous, intra-muscular, and intravenous medications.
Complete thorough and accurate documentation, within established guidelines, for all patient care and procedures.
Demonstrate and instruct patients on the proper administration of self-medicated prescriptions.
Educate patients and ensure distributed instructions are understood for maintenance of health and self-care.
Provide clinic one-on-one patient orientation and educational activities related to acute and/or chronic illnesses, self-care, wellness and/or preventive health measures, normal development, and physiology.
Assess patients’ emotional, cognitive, social, and motivational status relative to education and determine patients and/or family educational needs and priorities.
Interact with patients and/or family in stressful environments.
Assist patients’ compliance with medical treatment plans telephonically or through in-person clinic visits.
Identify self as a contract worker, coordinate patient referrals to a variety of health care services to include, but not limited to, community health nurse, health promotion center, social work service, dietician, clinical nurse specialist, chaplain, and other ancillary services as directed by attending physician.
After physician approval, perform nursing assessment of patients’ conditions, nursing diagnosis, and formulate and adjust nursing plan of care to include nursing orders to support patients’ evolving condition.
Coordinate prescription refills and after physician approval provide reassurance and/or advice regarding side effects of medications.
Use tact and diplomacy in notifying patients of laboratory tests that are abnormal per provider instructions, instructing patients on further care.