Registered Nurse - Telemetry HVPT

Registered Nurse - Telemetry HV3 PT Days

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Tower Heart and Vascular 3-Lake Main Campus, Baton Rouge, LA

• Growth opportunities
• Affordable employee benefits
• A community culture where you don’t feel lost in a large health system

The Registered Nurse provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, integrating differences into the provision of care. The role integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum.

• Clinical Practice and Care Management:
  Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
• Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning. Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs.
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs (treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options).
• Responds to changes in patient's needs and provides holistic care using independent clinical judgment based on knowledge drawn from education and experience.
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
• Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care: determines immediate priorities and offers solutions for problems.
• Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict. Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict.
• Identifies variances from expected outcomes and evaluates patient outcomes, making revisions in the plan of care.
• Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards. Assists the healthcare team with the documentation process.
• Consistently communicates/collaborates with the health care team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Appropriately delegates patient care activities to other health care team members and participates in making and revising staff assignments to achieve maximum productivity.
• Participates on unit teams, work groups and/or committees. Anticipates needs and voluntarily assists others.
• Demonstrates knowledge of unit based quality improvement initiatives and participates in quality improvement initiatives by utilizing standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.
• Incorporates evidence based practice and research findings into nursing practice to enhance outcomes.
• Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care team members; displays leadership behaviors.

• One year acute care nursing experience.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Per license requirements.
• Proficient in the English language, verbal and written communication skills, computer skills.
• Current Louisiana State license as RN and BLS certification.