RN - Registered Nurse (Night Shift)

Providence Health Care•Saint Mary of the Woods, IN

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members. The role involves assisting with safety assurance for residents and staff, enforcing federal and state regulations, promoting constructive working relationships between health care disciplines, promoting favorable public relations, and exhibiting professional nursing and leadership. Key responsibilities include identifying patient care requirements, establishing a compassionate environment, promoting patient independence through education, delivering excellent customer service, assuring quality of care, resolving patient problems, maintaining a safe and clean working environment, protecting patients and employees through infection control and medication administration procedures, documenting patient care services, reporting to work on time, addressing situations professionally, reporting grievances and complaints appropriately, maintaining continuity among nursing teams, and keeping patient information confidential.

Requirements

Licensed Registered Nurse graduate from an accredited school of nursing with a current license to practice in the State of Indiana in good standing.
Two years of experience in geriatric or long term care nursing preferred.
Must have eye/hand coordination sufficient to set up and administer injections, prepare/administer medications and treatments and adjusting flow rates and use medical equipment.
Must be able to clearly speak at a volume adaptable to the hearing impaired.
Must be able to hear normal volume sounds and voice patterns with constant background noise.
Must be able to hear lung, bowel and blood pressure sounds with appropriate diagnostic instruments.
Must be able to receive and follow verbal and written instruction.
Must be able to assess changes in resident conditions.
Must be able to smell smoke, spoiled foods, incontinent residents, etc.
Must be able to respond to audible emergency signals, alarms, call lights and telephones.
Must be able to read regular/small size print in multiple colors.
Must possess skills for continuous handling, fingering and feeling required for palpation, operating and maintaining equipment and providing medical treatments, i.e. wound care, resident care and medication/treatment administration.
Must be able to remember multiple assignments over an extended period of time.
Be able to remember data derived from assessments and document, review, specific requests, ideas and concepts and relate them as necessary.
Must be able to concentrate on details during constant interruptions.
In the event of an emergency, employee must be physically able to assist in resident evacuations and life support procedures.

Nice To Haves

Two years of experience in geriatric or long term care nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist with Safety Assurance for Residents and Staff Members
Know and Enforce Federal and State Regulations
Promote Constructive Working Relationships Between Health Care Disciplines
Promote Favorable Public Relations
Exhibit Professional Nursing and Leadership
Perform Related Tasks as Required
Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, employees, friends, and families.
Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
Delivers excellent customer service at all times.
Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
Demonstrates self-respect, respect for others, and acts with integrity.
Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
Reports to work on time when scheduled.
Addresses situations in a professional timely manner, ensuring tasks are completed thoroughly to the standards set by the community.
Report all grievances and complaints appropriately.
Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.