About this role
Our patients are our number one priority! We're committed to giving children back their childhood!
Job Posting Title: RN, Hand Clinic (Dallas) Location: Dallas - Hospital Additional Posting Details: Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
• Assess, delegate, and coordinate the nursing care, based on evidence-based guidelines, provided for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age, adolescents, or other patients within scope of organization
• Responsible for delivering quality care to a group of patients within a designated time frame in collaboration with other healthcare professionals
• Accountable for meeting the standards of patient/personal safety and in maintaining a clean and therapeutic environment
• Provides education and facilitates learning for patients, families, or the patient care team
• Serves as a preceptor to other nurses or students
• Maintains patient information and documentation in electronic medical record
• Abides by organizational and HIPAA guidelines, privacy practices, patient confidentiality, and patient rights
• Supports hospital and departmental performance improvement goals
• Provides quality care through compliance with departmental and organizational policies and guidelines, and external agency guidelines, standards, or regulations
• Supports departmental initiatives and change efforts
• Practices financial and resource stewardship
• Engages in strong communication, acts as team player in supporting mission and vision of organization, and abides by organization’s core values
• Additional duties as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities
• Graduate of accredited school of nursing
• Current license to practice professional nursing in the state of Texas
• American Heart Association BLS certification required
• American Heart Association PALS certification required, or within 6 months of hire
• Minimum 2-years of relevant nursing experience required
• Meet and maintain initial and ongoing requirements of RN III as outlined in organization’s Nursing Professional Development Advancement Program
Working Environment
• Working Conditions: Inside
• Working Position: Sitting, Standing, and Walking
• Physical Demands: Light, Sedentary
• Physical Requirements: Lifting/Carrying, Pushing/Pulling and Repetitive Movements, Stooping/Kneeling/Bending
• Lifting or carrying between 11-24 lbs.
• Sensory/Communicative activities essential to the performance of this position: Hearing, Seeing, Feeling, Smelling and Speaking
• This position will be exposed to Inside Environments, Bloodborne Pathogens and Respiratory Hazards