Registered Nurse (Internal Traveler) - Surgery

Saint Francis Health System•Indianapolis, IN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (Internal Traveler) provides nursing care in the Surgery department at the South Campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care using the nursing process and follows hospital standards and unit policies and procedures to monitor and evaluate patient functional status. This position is ECB status, requiring a minimum number of worked hours per month as needed by the department, with limited benefit offerings. It is a 13-week contract scheduled Monday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and includes 4–5 on-call shifts per month with a 30-minute call response time. The position is identified as safety-sensitive under Oklahoma law.

Requirements

Completion of the basic professional curricula of a school of nursing approved and verified by a state board of nursing, with a diploma or degree, or entitlement to hold one.
Valid multistate or Oklahoma Registered Nurse license.
One year of related experience in the selected specialty.
Working knowledge of disease-state management processes, the biopsychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Ability to organize and prioritize work effectively and efficiently.
Ability to be detail-oriented when examining clinical and numerical data.

Nice To Haves

BLS certification.
ACLS certification.

Responsibilities

Use the nursing process to care for assigned patients.
Complete patient assessments and individualize plans of care within established unit and nursing guidelines.
Provide nursing care that considers patients’ cultural and psychosocial factors and ages.
Organize, prioritize, and perform nursing skills appropriate to the patient population, and anticipate patient and unit needs.
Delegate and communicate effectively and appropriately.
Exercise professional judgment in response to changing patient and unit situations.
Document nursing-process steps and care in the appropriate record, recording data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly and using correct medical terminology and abbreviations.
Address problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit and nursing policy.
Facilitate patient teaching and discharge, using appropriate resources and accounting for patient age and cultural and psychosocial factors.
Make timely, appropriate referrals and collaborate with other disciplines as appropriate.
Support unit and hospital goals through performance-improvement and educational activities.
Attend mandatory in-services and meet unit education standards.
Complete variance reports accurately.