Registered Nurse - L&D

Job Summary: The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with hospital standards and unit policies/procedures for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating patient functional status.Job Responsibilities:-Utilizes the nursing process in caring for assigned patients.-Completes assessment and individualizes plan of care within established unit/nursing guidelines.-Carries out nursing care with consideration for cultural and psychosocial factors and ages of individual patients.-Organizes, prioritizes, and performs nursing skills appropriate for the patient population.-Anticipates patient/unit needs.-Demonstrates sound knowledge base: Bio-psychosocial.-Delegates and communicates effectively and appropriately.-Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.-Documents steps of the nursing process/care on the appropriate record.-Records data concisely, consistently, accurately, and legibly.-Utilizes correct medical terminology abbreviations.-Addresses problems and progress toward outcomes according to unit/nursing policy.-Facilitates patient teaching discharge.-Makes timely, appropriate referrals.-Utilizes resources in planning and presenting patient education, considering patient age and cultural/psychosocial factors.-Collaborates with other disciplines as appropriate.-Supports unit/hospital goals through PI and educational activities.-Attends mandatory in-services and meets unit education standards.-Accurately completes variance reports.-Decision Making: Independent judgment in planning the sequence of operations and making minor decisions in a complex technical or professional field.-Working Relationship: Works directly with patients and/or customers.-Works with internal/external customers.-Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.Required Skills & Experience:-Zero (0) - six (6) months of related experience.-Epic experience (Muskogee).-Working knowledge of disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.-Effective interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.-Ability to be detail oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.Preferred Skills & Experience:-Epic experience (South, Yale).Required Education:-Completion of basic professional curriculum of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.Preferred Education:-N/ARequired Certification & Licensure:-Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.-BLS, NRP & proof of instruction/passage of Intermediate FH Monitoring.Preferred Certification & Licensure: