Registered Nurse - $2500 Sign On Bonus
Company: Methodist Health System
Location: Council Bluffs
Posted on: August 3, 2022
Job Description:
- Purpose of Job
- Registered Nurses (RNs) will monitor, record, and report
changes in the conditions of the patients and be involved in every
aspect of the patients' health. Precision and accuracy in
maintaining detailed reports is important in relaying information
to the doctors or to the patients. Will prepare, assist, and
instruct patients for examinations and treatment and inform family
members on health care education topics.
- Job Requirements
- Education
- Graduated of an accredited school of nursing required.
- Experience
- No experience required.
- License/Certifications
- Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
certification required.
- Current valid Iowa Registered Nurse (RN) licensure or a
temporary permit while awaiting licensure required.
- Current valid Registered Nurse (RN) License, valid compact
multistate license to work in Nebraska or Iowa (work state), or a
temporary permit while awaiting licensure required.
- Current Advanced Cardio Life Support (ACLS) certification is
required.
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
- Knowledge of medical terminology and procedures required.
- Knowledge of medicine including recognizing and diagnosed
diseases, deformities, and other illnesses.
- Skill to effectively manage time and prioritize tasks.
- Skill to proficiently type information into the computer to
capture or detail information quickly.
- Ability to provide caring patient care services when talking
with patients and their family members.
- Ability to critically listen to questions from patients and
information from providers to convey information effectively.
- Ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve problems before
they occur and avoid bigger problems in the future.
- Ability to problem solve during several daily activities which
includes the ability to be flexible.
- Ability to learn and proficiently navigate through computer
programs that contain patient information.
- Strong verbal communication skills for positive interaction
with providers, staff and patients required.
- Able to follow written and verbal instructions/directions
required.
- Physical Requirements
- Weight Demands
- Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
- Physical Activity
- Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
- Climbing
- Crawling
- Kneeling
- Sitting
- Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
- Balancing
- Carrying
- Crouching
- Distinguish colors
- Keyboarding/typing
- Lifting
- Pulling/Pushing
- Repetitive Motions
- Stooping/bending
- Twisting
- Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
- Fingering/Touching
- Grasping
- Hearing
- Reaching
- Seeing/Visual
- Speaking/talking
- Standing (Floor Only)
- Walking (Floor Only)
- Sitting (Phone Only)
- Job Hazards
- Not Related:
- Electrical Shock/Static
- Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared
and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or
photochemical means)
- Rare (1%-33%):
- Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, C at
Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
- Occasionally (34%-66%):
- Equipment/Machinery/Tools
- Explosives (pressurized gas)
- Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors,
outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
- Frequent (67%-100%):
- Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses)
(Jobs with Patient contact) Blood or Body Fluid (BBF)
- Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
- Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
- Essential Job Functions
- Essential Functions I
- Joint (Floor and Phone)
- Medical Home
- Documents all lab, procedures, and appointments on tracking
forms.
- Completes tracking forms and follows up on missed appointments
and procedures.
- Assists Health Coaches by working patient lists and scheduling
appointments as directed.
- At the direction of the provider provides patient and family
education to ensure adequate knowledge/awareness and recommends
appropriate community resources as needed.
- Educates/instructs patients according to providers direction
98% of the time.
- Performs telephone triage to determine patient needs by
recording and reporting patient condition to provider and advising
patient based on provider instructions.
- Receives and returns patient calls within 90 minutes based on
medical priority 95% of the time.
- Accurately records and reports patient's condition according to
department policy 98% of the time.
- Maintains work areas to ensure healthy environmental conditions
by cleaning and organizing equipment and rooms.
- Maintains clean and organized work area according to
department/provider protocol 99% of the time.
- Handles prescription renewals/inquiries to facilitate patient
care. Discusses questions with provider and relays information to
pharmacy.
- Handles prescription refills according to department/provider
protocols 99% of the time.
- Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the patient to
ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment as outlined in
the "Age Specific Criteria".
- Completes Age Specific Quiz annually.
- Monitors INR Levels on cardiology patients of Heart Care Center
as directed by the HCC provider.
- Proivdes educational teaching on Coumadin to the cardiology
patients.
- Completes FMLA, Disability, DOT forms and appeals letters as
directed by the provider.
- Floor
- Prepares exam rooms and equipment to facilitate treatment and
examination of patients by setting up instruments/equipment and
stocking supplies.
- Prepares exam rooms and medical equipment according to provider
protocol 95% of the time.
- Prepares patient for provider exam by reviewing medical
records, weighing patient, checking vital signs, performing
medication reconciliation and obtaining information relevant to
patient care.
- Prepares patient for exam by following provider protocol and
company policies 95% of the time.
- Assists providers to facilitate patient treatment by retrieving
tests and medical records and obtaining lab work as directed.
- Obtains provider requested tests, records, and lab work 95% of
the time.
- Dispense medications at the direction of a provider to
patients. Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse instruct
patients and family members regarding education and treatment to
ensure patients completely understand how to take the medication
correctly.
- Assists and/or performs phlebotomy with proper labeling and
handling of specimens, accurately completes requisitions, and
collects specimens according to standard procedures/protocols and
performing and documenting quality control activities.
- Performs above procedure according to clinic policy and
procedures 95% of the time.
- Ensures accuracy of order entry and completes appropriate
documentation without error at least 98% of the time.
- Monitor Crash on a daily basis - updates as needed.
- Performs prior authorizations on diagnostic testing as ordered
by the cardiologist.
- Phone
- Answering Phone Calls
- Answers calls according to protocol at least 98% of the
time.
- Returning Phone Messages
- Returns phone messages according to protocol at least 98% of
the time.
- Providing Test Results
- Provides test results according to protocol at least 98% of the
time.
- Pharmacy Refills
- Accurately completes pharmacy request 100% of the time.
- Essential Functions II
- Participates in mandatory in-services and/or CE programs as
mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as
directed by management.
- Completes skills checkoff list annually.
- Follows and understands the mission, vision, core values,
Employee Standards of Behavior and company
policies/procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Keywords: Methodist Health System, Council Bluffs , Registered Nurse - $2500 Sign On Bonus, Healthcare , Council Bluffs, Iowa
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