RN - BSN - Flex - FT .9 NIGHTS

Sky Lakes Medical Center•Klamath Falls, OR

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time, 0.9 FTE Registered Nurse position with flexible scheduling, primarily for night shifts. The role involves completing comprehensive patient assessments, developing and implementing care plans using the nursing process, and synthesizing data to identify problems and formulate goals. The Registered Nurse will implement care plans using critical thinking and problem-solving skills, assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. They will also be responsible for beginning, delivering, assigning, or delegating interventions within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters, focusing on health restoration, disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles. Evaluating and reporting patient outcomes, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, observing patient safety alerts, and accurately entering patient information into the electronic medical record (EMR) are key responsibilities. The role also includes developing action plans to improve patient care by monitoring nurse-sensitive indicators, participating in unit-based PI activities, supervising nursing students, and potentially serving as a charge nurse or resource nurse. Directing, delegating, and providing feedback to support personnel is also part of the role.

Requirements

Basic nursing skills
Concepts of medical, surgical asepsis and disease processes
Terminology, theory, techniques and practices of professional nursing
Effective verbal and written communication in care management
Flexibility with priorities and activity
Ability to remain calm and handle stress and emotional responses adapted to the needs of patients and staff
Skills in analyzing problems, decision making, planning and implementation
Safe body mechanics
Ability to use specialized equipment for assigned units
Able to demonstrate and maintain soft skills as outlined in the Sky Lakes Medical Center Employee Standards handbook
A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is required
Minimum 3 years hospital-based experience
Current Oregon Nursing License as a Registered Nurse

Nice To Haves

Certification in area of specialty (e.g., CEN, CPEN, CCRN, CNOR)
ICU or ED must obtain TNCC within one year of hire and maintained
FBC must obtain EFM within one year of hire and maintained
PALS or ENPC must be obtained within 6 months for ED/ICU/Pediatrics within six months

Responsibilities

Complete a comprehensive assessment, including initial and ongoing, extensive collection, analysis and interpretation of data.
Develop and implement a plan of care for each patient through the nursing process regarding the care, counseling, and health teaching of the ill, injured or infirm.
Synthesize the data collected during the comprehensive assessment to identify problems, make nursing diagnoses, and to formulate goals, teaching plans and outcomes.
Implement the plan of care using critical thinking and problem-solving skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care.
Begin, deliver, assign or delegate certain interventions within the plan of care for patients within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters and in consideration of health restoration, disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Evaluate and report patient outcomes and responses to therapeutic interventions in comparison to benchmarks from evidence-based practice and research findings and plans, any follow-up care and referrals to appropriate resources that may be needed.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to plan and deliver care.
Observe and follow patient safety alerts by detailing accurate and timely entry of patient information in the electronic medical record (EMR).
Develops action plans and improves patient care by monitoring and evaluating quality of care with the focus on nurse sensitive indicators.
Participate in unit-based PI activities to positively impact patient outcomes.
Makes themself available to supervise nursing students when student nurses are assigned to the same unit.
Fill in as a department’s charge nurse or function as a resource nurse across units as needed.
Directs, delegates, and provides feedback to support personnel in implementing patient's plan of care, and immediately intervenes with deviation standards of care.
Performs other duties as assigned.