RN

DCH Health System•Northport, AL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Plans, coordinates, and directs quality, compassionate care while maintaining professional nursing practice standards and creating positive therapeutic relationships with patients and families. Provides leadership to team members by communicating and delegating expected care standards, supervising and encouraging staff, and supporting their contributions. Supervises LPNs, PCAs, PCAs/US, US, ED Techs, ED Clerical/PCA staff, CRSS, and OTs.

Requirements

Current Alabama RN licensure.
Associate degree in Nursing.
Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training.
Ability to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.
Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and accurately, delegate to and receive delegation from team members and students, work in groups, and perform structured and unstructured work.
Ability to make decisions affecting others, achieve outcomes, address conflict and stressful situations, communicate with different personalities, and meet time pressures and timelines.
Ability to use electronic mail, telephone, and texting.
Ability to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
Ability to tolerate prolonged standing and walking; reach in any direction; stand, walk, kneel, bend, sit, stoop, and run in an emergency; and lift, push, pull, and carry objects using maximum muscle force when required.
Ability to exert up to 100 pounds occasionally, up to 50 pounds frequently, and up to 20 pounds constantly to move objects.
Coordinated finger movement and ability to perceive temperature, texture, shape, and size with fingertips.
Stamina to work prolonged shifts.
Normal hearing and vision, or correction to within normal range.
Physical presence onsite is essential.

Nice To Haves

Professional Nursing Certification.

Responsibilities

Assess each assigned patient upon admission and on an ongoing basis, including physical, psychological, social, spiritual, cultural, pain-management, nutritional, functional, developmental, age-related, and discharge-planning needs.
Plan, provide, and document education for patients and/or significant others, identifying barriers to learning and accounting for relevant physical, behavioral, psychological, developmental, and age-related factors.
Evaluate and regularly reevaluate patient care, coordinating care plans with patients, families, providers, and other disciplines to achieve patient-centered outcomes.
Assign and delegate nursing care to team members according to patient needs and team members’ capabilities.
Apply safety principles in providing care and accurately document observations, care provided, and changes to care plans.
Participate in transition rounds, care planning and problem identification, and team shift reports.
Support performance-improvement activities, including serving on teams as warranted, assisting with measures, and implementing improvement changes.
Perform initial and annual competency assessments for the applicable job class.
Meet performance, patient and employee satisfaction, and financial standards outlined in performance evaluations.
Complete compliance requirements and follow the Employee Handbook, DCH Behavioral Standards, and DCH Health System policies and procedures.
Perform essential job functions in a manner that safeguards patients, visitors, and employees; identify unsafe practices and take appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards.
Use electronic mail, time-and-attendance software, learning-management software, and the intranet as required.
Perform other duties as assigned.