Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic - $35-55 per hour
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: March 17, 2023
|
|
|
Job Description:
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN)
Clinic for a nursing job in Fort Worth, Texas.Job Description &
Requirements
JOB SUMMARY
The Clinic Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who
uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate
patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing
process, the Clinic RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing
diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and
implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the
patient's response. The Clinic RN promotes safe passage for their
patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare
environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare
encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The
Clinic RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on
the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the
competencies of the employee.
The Clinic RN is to be used in ambulatory departments, clinics or
outpatient departments that provide services Monday-Friday during
normal business hours.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate
clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies
and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and
evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical
outcomes.
Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and
effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to,
nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice
changes through research utilization and experiential learning.
Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and
therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops
therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains
appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain
with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing
unnecessary suffering.
Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a
patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture,
spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle,
socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan
of care.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the
confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family
and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that
accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies
and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and
families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and
community; integrating appropriate education throughout the
continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed
decisions about their health care and treatments, including health
promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning
needs and outcomes.
Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with
colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated
plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique
contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and
ensures timely follow-up.
Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for
problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that
resources are limited and considers factors related to safety,
effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient
care.
Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment
through participating in shared governance and decision-making
processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others.
Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to
evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing
professional growth through continuing education, networking with
professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional
nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading,
certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the
professional development of peers, colleagues and others.
Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards
and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines
of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit
standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the
provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of
health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention
and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their
physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse
reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient
privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in
writing.
Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of
constituencies.
Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and
effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff
members and physicians/providers.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to
all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing
practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human
experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary,
modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual
patients.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft
Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems,
electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
- Potential relocation bonus
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
-
LOCATION/FACILITY: - -Liver Consultants of Texas, Fort Worth,
Texas
For more information on the facility, please click our -Locations
-link.
SPECIALITY/DEPARTMENT PRACTICE: - -Hepatology
SHIFT/SCHEDULE: - -Full time days, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m.; no call, nights or weekends
Baylor Scott and White Job ID #23002140. Posted job title: Clinic
RN HepatologyAbout Baylor Scott & White HealthAs the largest
not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas, Baylor Scott &
White promotes the health and well-being of every individual,
family and community it serves. It is committed to making quality
care more accessible, convenient and affordable through its
integrated delivery network, which includes the Baylor Scott &
White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, the
Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance and its leading digital
health platform - MyBSWHealth. Through 51 hospitals and more than
1,100 access points, including flagship academic medical centers in
Dallas, Fort Worth and Temple, the system offers the full continuum
of care, from primary to award-winning specialty care. Founded as a
Christian ministry of healing more than a century ago, Baylor Scott
& White today serves more than three million Texans.Benefits
Keywords: Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth , Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic - $35-55 per hour, Healthcare , Fort Worth, Texas
|
Click
here to apply!
|
