RN CHARGE - Medical Surgical Telemetry - Nights - Kaufman, TX - Med Surg / Telemetry

Company: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman
Location: Kaufman
Posted on: September 21, 2023

Job Description:

RN CHARGE - Medical Surgical Telemetry - Nights - Kaufman, TXCharge Registered Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical/Tele - Full Time - Nights - Great Learning Opportunities and Great Benefits! -- Are you looking for a rewarding career and a tight-knit nursing team? We're looking for qualified Registered Nurse like you to join our Texas Health family. -- Position Highlights: Work location: Texas Health Kaufman, 850 Ed Hall Drive Kaufman, TX 75142 -- Work environment:-- - Medical Surgical/Tele - Come join Texas Health Kaufman as a Registered Nurse! As a Registered Nurse you will be working in our 29-34 bed unit for patients in Medical Surgical, Telemetry, Orthopedic and General Surgery. Our unit truly is a family with 18 nurse, 8 PCTS and 4 monitor technicians. As a Registered Nurse at Texas Health Kaufman you have opportunities for shared governance, NCAP, certification bonuses, tuition reimbursement, self-scheduling and much, much more! We can't wait for you to join! -- Work hours:-- Full Time - Days - 6:45 PM-7:15 AM 36 hours/week -- Entity Information: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman is a 91-bed acute-care, full-service hospital serving Kaufman and Henderson counties and southern Dallas County since 1979. Hospital services include women's care, cardiac rehabilitation, wound care and diagnostic and imaging services. Texas Health Kaufman was recently recognized as a Pathway to Excellence-- hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is a Level IV Trauma Center. Our location, 35 miles southeast of downtown Dallas, brings all the perks of country living to your lifestyle and puts the city's best features within convenient reach. Position Qualifications--

• Associate's Degree--Nursing required----
• BSN (preferred)--
  • 1--Year--of--experience as a clinical nurse--in an acute care setting required--
  • 2 years of--experience as a clinical nurse in--an acute care setting preferred--
  • RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire (Required)----
  • BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support Upon Hire (Required)---- Position Responsibilities--Texas Health's--nursing theory is the Quality Caring Model developed by Dr. Joanne Duffy. A nursing theory has principles that underlie the art of nursing and drive the science behind our practice. The eight caring factors listed below must be demonstrated by all nurses, and charge nurses must model this behavior consistently.-- -- Basic Human Needs--- Responds to others' priorities regarding safety, physical, psychological and social needs.-- Human Respect--- Honors worth of humans through unconditional acceptance.-- Affiliation Needs--- Engages family/caregivers in health care situations.-- Appreciation of Unique Meanings--- Concerned with understanding others frame of reference.-- Mutual Problem Solving--- Professional behaviors that help patients and families understand how to confront, learn about, and think about their health and illness; involves a reciprocal, shared approach with resulting decisions acceptable to involved parties.-- Attentive Reassurance--- Listens and concentrates on others. Is reliable,--available--and attentive.-- Encouraging Manner--- The professional nurse communicates an attitude that is supportive, open, positive and tolerant.-- Healing Environment--- The professional nurse creates settings that provide privacy, safety, confidentiality and tranquility.-- -- Additional Job Responsibilities-- The Charge Nurse role will communicate and collaborate with all members of the health care team. Valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a key strategy of teamwork at Texas Health.-- -- Shared Decision Making: The Charge Nurse role will support and actively participate in shared governance/councils which is Texas Health's structure for decision making.-- -- Professional Development: The Charge Nurse role will be committed to developing their individual knowledge and skills, as well as advancing the profession of nursing and engaging in lifelong learning/development.-- -- This role directly assists leadership on a particular unit or units and shift, by offering staff guidance and support, maintaining a clean and safe work environment and ensuring unit operational tasks are completed.---- -- Individuals in this role will demonstrate:-- Quality Management - Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.-- Conflict Management - Understanding of how to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to diverse situations.-- Decision Making and Critical Thinking - Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.-- Flexibility and Adaptability - Knowledge of successful approaches, tools, and techniques for dealing with changes and adapting to a changing environment; ability to adapt as needed.-- Delegation - Understanding of the need to effectively delegate tasks to others and the ability to empower and motivate associates to take over tasks and responsibilities to accomplish results for which the manager maintains ultimate accountability.-- Customer Interaction - Knowledge of the principles and techniques of communicating with a customer; ability to utilize practices, tools, and techniques for customer interaction.-- Patient Safety - Knowledge of and experience with tools, techniques and practices for ensuring a safe and harm-free environment for patients; ability to recognize risks and take steps to minimize them.-- Care Coordination - Knowledge of the medical, social, economic, and other services provided by other departments or facilities, and the ability to integrate these multidisciplinary treatments for optimal patient care.-- Clinical Policies and Standards - Knowledge of all clinical standards and policies set for a healthcare environment; ability to use industry standards, policies and procedures in the processes of clinical practice.-- Patient Rights - Knowledge of principles and practices associated with the rights and responsibilities of patients and caregivers; ability to apply these theories to identify, report, deal with and prevent patient rights violations.-- -- Why Texas Health--As--a Texas Health RN you'll enjoy top-notch benefits including 401(k) with match, paid time off, competitive health insurance choices, healthcare and dependent care spending account options, wellness programs to keep you and your family healthy, tuition reimbursement, a student loan repayment program and more.---- At Texas Health, our people make this a great place to work every day. Our inclusive, supportive, excellence-driven culture make Texas Health a place you'll love to call home.---- Here are a few of our recent awards:--
    • 2021 FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For--" (7th year in a row)--
    • Becker's Healthcare "150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare" (4 years running)--
      • "America's Best Employers for Diversity" list by Forbes--
      • A "100 Best Workplaces for Millennials" by Fortune and Great Place to Work------ Additional perks of being a Texas Health Nurse----
        • Unlimited access to online continuing education for professional and career development.--Plus--an RN Step Program including NCAP and a nursing certification test-prep content for specialty nurses.--
        • A Nursing Excellence Advisory Board to provide the framework and methodology for funding projects to improve the quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.--
          • A strong shared governance structure featuring unit-based councils that empower nurses to shape their work environment.--
          • A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.-- Explore our----for info like--,--, recent----we've won and more.---- Do you still have questions or concerns?--Feel free to email your questions to--.--

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