Registered Nurse (RN) - Obstetrics

Tenet Healthcare Corporation • Brownsville, TX

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) – Obstetrics provides direct clinical patient care and is responsible for assessing, planning, and implementing care for assigned patients on a per-shift and unit-level basis. The RN supervises staff to whom appropriate care is delegated and supports the CNO in ensuring high-quality, safe, and appropriate nursing care, clinical staff competency, and effective resource management related to patient care.

The RN coordinates and integrates patient care using the nursing process, follows established safety, risk management, quality improvement, and infection control standards, and coordinates care within the prescribed medical regime. The role includes safely and promptly administering medications in accordance with hospital policy and performing assigned Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) duties during emergencies or disasters. The RN must know the hospital emergency codes and follow the relevant policies and procedures.

The position may qualify for a sign-on bonus. Valley Baptist Medical Center describes its mission as serving, healing, and educating through compassionate, quality healthcare, with concern for the whole patient.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice the profession as required by law, regulation in the state of practice, or policy.
• AHA BLS certification.
• AHA ACLS, PALS, and/or NRP certification if applicable under corporate policy for the unit of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Nursing.
• Recent acute care experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to patients.
• Coordinate and integrate patient care based on the nursing process.
• Direct care according to established safety, risk management, quality improvement, and infection control standards, with the goal of discharging the patient after providing an optimum level of care.
• Coordinate and plan patient care within the prescribed medical regime.
• Administer medications safely and in a timely manner according to hospital policy.
• Supervise staff to whom appropriate care is delegated.
• Support the CNO in ensuring high-quality, safe, and appropriate nursing care, clinical staff competency, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.
• Perform HICS responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed during emergencies or disasters.
• Know the hospital’s emergency codes, including their purposes and appropriate responses, and follow hospital policies and procedures for each code.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Paid time off.
• Career development and continuing education opportunities.
• Health savings accounts and healthcare and dependent flexible spending accounts.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee discount program.
• Voluntary pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder and childcare, and auto and home insurance.
• The position may qualify for a sign-on bonus; eligibility is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree