Registered Nurse / RN Labor & Delivery Postpartum Recovery

The Registered Nurse is responsible for delivery of patient care through the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. This position is responsible for the following:

• Directing and coordinating all nursing care for patients based on established clinical nursing practice standards.
• Collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
• Contributing to the provision of quality nursing care through performance improvement techniques that demonstrate positive outcomes in patient care.

What You Will Be Doing:

1. Deliver individualized, goal-directed nursing care using a systematic approach and according to standards of care, facility's code of conduct compliance, and policy in collaboration with patients and interdisciplinary healthcare team members:

• Collect patient's health data.
• Analyze assessment data in determining patient problems.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
• Develop a comprehensive plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Implement interventions identified in the plan of care.
• Evaluate patient's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Assist with the plan of care, evaluate, modify and coordinate care and communicate well with other disciplines.
• Serve as a resource for le

Responsibilities

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Associates Degree in Nursing (A.D.N.) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) from an accredited school.

Experience:

• Prefer 2 years of nursing experience in an acute care setting.
• Position requires fluency in English language to function in job environment appropriately.
• Good interpersonal, communication, team-work, and customer service skills.
• Good organizational, problem-solving and follow-through skills.
• Ability to multi-task constantly, react to changes quickly/productively, and tolerate interruptions.
• Ability to perform work when no directions are given, and give directions to others.
• Remain flexible, organized, professional and able to analyze, make sound decisions under stressful or crisis situations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current computer systems, equipment or programs used in the organization.
• Demonstrate maturity and accountability.

Certification and Licensure:

• Completion of education to obtain Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• ACLS certification preferred.
• BLS required
• PALS Certification (preferred but not required).

Compliance Requirements

• Comply with regulatory requirements, guidelines, and policies

Qualifications

BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS: Service

• Patient Centered Customer Service: Genuinely care about people.
• Cultivate a compassionate environment: Changing lives for the better together

Quality

• Clinical and Operational Excellence: A relentless drive to be the best.
• Holistic Approach: Think and act for the benefit of the whole.

People

• Promote a collaborative environment: Build effective working relationships with others.
• Identify and Develop Talent: Prepare others to deliver excellence.

Financial

• Business Acumen: Know, own and drive our business.
• Continually Simplify and Improve: Work to make everything as efficient as possible.

Growth

• Foster Innovation: Seek and apply leading edge solutions.
• Set Clear Direction: Tell others where you are going, how to get there and why.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to sit/stand for long periods of time while completing work on a computer
• Ability to lift 10 or more pounds
• Ability to move throughout the workplace

Now that you have read about what you will be doing and the experience we seek, it is time to apply and make a difference in the lives of our patients. UT Health East Texas is an equal opportunity employer (including veterans and persons with disabilities).