About this role
Job Summary
Provides direct and indirect patient care in the assigned care setting. Communicates and collaborates with physicians, leadership, co-workers, and other multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes. Provides high quality patient care utilizing critical thinking, nursing processes, decision making, compassion, integrity, respect, and empathy. Preserves the patient’s autonomy, dignity, and rights, and restores health whenever possible. Able to perform general nursing duties, patient education, and prioritization. Performs other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and enters Trauma Registry data into the State Trauma Registry based on the rules and guidelines set by the State Department of Health.
- Functions within all areas of the Trauma Department to help achieve department goals and meet department deadlines.
- Works with other departments involved with the care of Trauma patients to provide education and performance improvement plans when indicated.
- Assesses the patient appropriately and accurately based on their medical condition.
- Has knowledge of ordered medications and administers as prescribed.
- Provides care appropriate to the condition and age of the patient including basic self-care activities.
- Formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning; family is included in teaching as appropriate.
- Demonstrates ability to utilize nursing knowledge to perform treatments and provide services.
- Communicates/collaborates with multidisciplinary team in providing patient care.
- Demonstrates an ability to assist physicians with procedures and performs services requiring technical and manual skills.
- Identifies and addresses psychosocial needs of patients and family; communicates with social services regarding both hospital and post discharge needs.
- Demonstrates cost-effective practices and non-wasteful usage of supplies, linen, and charge items.
- Prioritizes patient care effectively and efficiently.
- Promotes patient safety by reducing the risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care.
- Assumes lifelong learning related to the nursing profession.
Specifications
Experience
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Education
Minimum Required
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
Preferred/Desired
Training
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Special Skills
Minimum Required
- Computer literacy
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel preferred but not required
Preferred/Desired
Licensure
Minimum Required
- RN; BLS CERTIFICATION WITHIN 14 DAYS OF HIRE
Preferred/Desired
- ACLS/PALS Specialty Certification
Other facts
About Baptist
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
What you'll do
- The RN provides direct and indirect patient care, collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, and reviews Trauma Registry data. They also assess patients, administer medications, and formulate teaching plans.
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