Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic - $35-55 per hour
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: Mesquite
Posted on: March 11, 2023
Job Description:
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN)
Clinic for a nursing job in Mesquite, Texas.Job Description &
Requirements
- Specialty: Clinic
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Permanent
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 delicate indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes
through research utilization and experiential learning.
Participates in quality/performance improvement
initiatives.
- Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe and
therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops
therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains
appropriate boundaries. Manages both fervid and physical pain with
the aim of promoting relief 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
conclusions about their health care and treatments, including
health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents
learning needs and outcomes.
- Partnership: Works collaboratively and interdependently with
colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated
plan of care. Open and delicate 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 mutual governance and
conclusion-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the
contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from
education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and
fulfills 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 expertise 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; methods 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.
- Social 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 care 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 separate
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
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
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Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH)----is the largest not-for-profit
health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United
States.-- With a commitment to and a track record of innovation,
collaboration, integrity and compassion for the patient, BSWH
stands to be one of the nations exemplary health care
organizations.-- Our--mission--is to serve all people by providing
personalized health and wellness through exemplary care, education
and research as a Christian ministry of healing. Joining our team
is not just accepting a job, it is accepting a calling!
--QUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program- MAJOR
- Nursing- MAJOR - Nursing- MAJOR - Nursing- EXPERIENCE - Less than
1 Year of Experience- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION -
--------------Registered Nurse (RN)--------------Basic Life Support
(BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.Recruiter:
Yvette LebronBaylor Scott and White Job ID #23005139. Posted job
title: Clinic RN CardiacAbout Baylor Scott & White HealthBaylor
Scott & White Health is the largest not-for-profit health care
system in the state of Texas.Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- Continuing Education
- 401k retirement plan
- Wellness and fitness programs
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Benefits start day 1
- Life insurance
- Discount program
Keywords: Baylor Scott & White Health, Mesquite , Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic - $35-55 per hour, Healthcare , Mesquite, Texas
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