RN Float Pool - ICU - 10k Bonus

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Job Description
RN - ICU Float Pool - Nights. 10k Bonus! Great new rates! WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN? With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees.

Requirements

  • Performs and accurately documents physical, psychosocial, and emotional assessments.
  • Actively anticipates patient's and/or patient's family needs and expectations and utilizes these in conjunction with the assessment to develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient.
  • Utilizes critical thinking skills in planning and prioritizing nursing care.
  • Maintains and utilizes competencies per unit expectation.
  • Identifies and implements appropriate nursing interventions based on the completed assessment.
  • Confers with all members of the health care team in a collaborative fashion, sharing information and observations of the patient and/or patient's family in a manner that contributes to optimal patient care.
  • Appropriately prioritizes nursing interventions based upon completed assessment.
  • Promptly identifies changes in condition as evidenced by nursing assessment, labs, x-rays, etc.
  • Evaluates implemented interventions and modifies care according to the evaluation.
  • Documents interventions and modifications to the plan of care in an accurate and timely manner.
  • Adheres to appropriate hospital and/or Department of Nursing policies, procedures, clinical pathways and nationally accepted standards of nursing practice while delivering nursing care to patients.
  • Suggests practices to enhance Nursing care based on current literature and research.
  • Provides appropriate and timely answers and/or education to patient's and/or patient's families.
  • Completes accurate and timely documentation of all education provided.
  • Obtains feedback/evaluation of understanding from patient/family, i.e., have we helped you?
  • Patient/family verbalizes comfort with after discharge care.
  • Demonstrates effective communication with children, adolescents, adults and older adults.
  • Welcomes and orients patient/family to the unit.
  • Encourages patient/family participation in care.
  • Reviews plan of care with patient/family every shift.
  • Explains special diets, tests, procedures and medications in easily understood and appropriate language.
  • Makes frequent rounds on patients, communicates when will return; patient infrequently needs to use call light.

Benefits

  • Free Medical Insurance
  • 10,000 Sign-On Bonus
  • Teacher Retirement System (TRS) Contributions
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Certification Pay & Referral Bonuses
  • Clinical Ladder Program
  • Exclusive Employee Discounts
  • Generous Paid Time Off
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