L&D Nurse

Overview

Job Summary And Responsibilities As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will support patient recovery and aid your own career advancement.

Where You ll Work Located just off Highway 59 south, the 66-bed hospital in Livingston provides more than 60,000 patient services each year, with half of those services offered in the Level 4 Trauma-Designated Emergency Department. Services include Orthopedic care, Women’s Services, and a modern Sleep Center. Imaging services include MRI, CT, nuclear medicine scans, 4D Ultrasound, cardiac echocardiograms, fluoroscopy, bone density scanning and 3D mammography.

Common Spirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., Common Spirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before; our communities need caring and our families need protection. Common Spirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Pay Range $28.50 - $43.46 /hour

• Assessment:
  Admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition. Provide nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs. Notify doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
• Planning:
  Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching and transition of care to include safe, appropriate level of discharge. Collaborate with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulate a plan of care and daily goals considering the patient’s individualized needs.
• Implementation:
  Prepare patients for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies; report significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician. Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
• Evaluation:
  Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions; notify physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjust nursing care to meet the patient’s evolving needs.
• Report
  
  Skills:
  
  Provide bedside shift reports with family participation; deliver accurate and comprehensive reports to oncoming shifts to establish continuity of care; receive reports from off-going shifts and delegate tasks to maintain continuity based on teammate experience and patient acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety:
  Maintain a safe patient and work environment; promptly remove used and soiled equipment and linen to appropriate locations; support quality, patient safety and satisfaction initiatives; report patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

• Associates Degree in Nursing and at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire
• Basic Life Support (CPR) within 14 days
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 6 months

• Bachelor of Nursing, upon hire