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Description: 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. -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: -N/A ___________________________________

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/A ___________________________________

Required Certification & Licensure: -Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License. -BLS, ACLS & PALS, NIHSS.

Preferred Certification & Licensure: -N/A Must have skills: 2+ years of experience; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); BLS; BLS certified through AHA; NIHSS Good to have skills: ENPC; TNCC

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