Registered Nurse (RN) - Endoscopy

Tenet Healthcare Corporation•El Paso, TX

About The Position

The Registered Nurse 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 role includes supervising staff to whom care is delegated and supporting 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 medical regimes and safety, risk-management, quality-improvement, and infection-control standards, and administers medications in accordance with hospital policy. The role also includes fulfilling assigned hospital incident command system duties and following hospital emergency-code procedures.

Requirements

Graduate of a state-approved or 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.
CPR certification.
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 patients 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.
Fulfill 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 related hospital policies and procedures.
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 patient-care resource management.