Registered Nurse III - PCU

Job Duties

v Assessment: Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.

v Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care. Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.

v Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.

Qualifications

Education:

Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.

Licensure/Certification/Registration:

RN License to practice as a professional registered nursing in the state of Texas

BLS Certification required

Experience/ Skills:

Minimum of 2 year clinical experience as a licensed RN

Minimum of 2 years clinical experience in the Telemetry

Approved for and maintains requirements of the MHS Nursing Clinical Excellence program RN level IV.

WILL CONSIDER AN RN WITH 1 YR EXP IN AN ACUTE CARE. IS WILLING TO CROSS TRAIN INTO PCU