staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Long Term Acute Care
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: Temple
Posted on: September 16, 2023
Job Description:
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN)
Long Term Acute Care for a nursing job in Temple, Texas.Job
Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Long Term Acute Care
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Staff
Join BSWH Continuing Care Hospital as a Registered Nurse and be
part of something better!--The #1 city in the nation for Nursing
opportunities and advancement!
**$15k sign-on bonus offered to qualified RNs with 2 years of
direct RN experience.
Schedule:--Full Time - Nights - 36 hours per week
Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital - Temple is a 48-bed,
highly advanced medical facility offering private treatment rooms
and 24-hour access to a team of physicians located in Temple,
Texas.
Our modern, patient-focused facility delivers comprehensive
therapies for patients requiring extended hospital stays. Rather
than chronic care, the Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care
Hospital provides acute care, which involves active but short-term
treatment following a severe medical condition or during recovery
from surgery. It is also home to our skilled nursing facility.
Long Term Acute Care Opportunities
Patients cared for are critically ill with complex conditions. Many
of these patients depend on technology such as ventilators, special
monitors or dialysis. The average length of stay is 25 days.
Baylor Scott & White Health's tradition of comprehensive,
multispecialty care extends to the Baylor Scott & White Continuing
Care Hospital in Temple. Our team, which includes physicians,
nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and specialists in
physical, occupational and speech therapy, utilizes its skills and
experience to individualize care for our long-term patients.
We treat patients with conditions such as:
- Ventilator weaning
- Pulmonary disease
- Cardiopulmonary disorders
- Complex wound care
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Gastrointestinal diseases (difficulty
eating/swallowing)
- Post-operative complications (infection, stroke,
bleeding)
- Renal disease, including dialysis
- Medically-complex patients
- Post-trauma care
"CCH is like a small family. Staff and inter-disciplinary teams
know and care for each other. We work hard but have fun at the same
time. Every decision made is in the best interest of staff and the
patients."
-Manager of CCH
Baylor Scott & White Health Registered Nurses Enjoy
- Competitive pay including an RN Bonus Program rewarding nurses
for providing exceptional care and improving patient
outcomes.
- Attractive Relocation Assistance for full-time
candidates.
- Excellent benefits including a generous 401(k) program with
company match, vacation and paid time off (PTO), tuition
assistance, immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
and wellness programs to keep you and your family healthy.-- (Note:
benefits may vary based on position type and/or level).
- A strong shared governance model featuring unit-based councils
that empower nurses and improve patient outcomes.
- Access to more than 4,000 hours of online--continuing education
for professional development.
- A strong system Nurse Practice Council that uses autonomy,
authority and accountability in collaboration with transformational
nursing leadership to drive nursing practice throughout Baylor
Scott & White Health.
- A spirit of inquiry and innovation that promotes Evidence-based
practice, research and innovations in nursing practice.
- A healthy work environment and culture of safety using
inter-professional collaboration and professional competencies to
meet the needs of patients to provide safe passage and quality
outcomes at every encounter.
Why Baylor Scott & White Health
At Baylor Scott & White Health, we empower each other to create
healthier communities and deliver safe and high-quality care across
the--state of Texas. With more than--52 hospitals, 800 access
points, a--quality--health plan and an--award-winning--research
institute, you'll enjoy endless opportunities to make your mark on
the future of healthcare. At Baylor Scott and White Health, you'll
be joining a team that's committed to better.--Because better never
settles. And neither should you.--
--As the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas and one
of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health
has the resources to offer a variety of career opportunities to
meet your personal and professional goals.--
--The Baylor Scott & White Health nursing team challenges each
other to innovate, to constantly raise the bar and to never settle.
Every day, our diverse group of team members bring unique talents,
a passion for innovation and a deep Commitment to those we
serve.--------
Baylor Scott & White Health is the most awarded system in Texas,
and a Certified Great Place to Work!-- Consider a career move to
the Continuing Care Hospital and join our exceptional nursing team
committed to something better.--
--
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the
BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care
delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN
assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on
responses to health problems, develops and implements an
individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response.
The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge
of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients
to transition through the healthcare encounter without any
preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions
to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act,
each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.
RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient
departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with
on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient
and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis,
Infusion Centers and IV Services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
- Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate
clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies
and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and
evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical
outcomes.
- Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and
effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to,
nursing delicate indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes
through research utilization and experiential learning.
Participates in quality/performance improvement
initiatives.
- Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe and
therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops
therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains
appropriate boundaries. Manages both fervid and physical pain with
the aim of promoting relief and healing and preventing unnecessary
suffering.
- Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates
a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture,
spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle,
socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan
of care.
- Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the
confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family
and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that
accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies
and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
- Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and
families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and
community; integrating appropriate education throughout the
continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed
conclusions about their health care and treatments, including
health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents
learning needs and outcomes.
- Partnership: Works collaboratively and interdependently with
colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated
plan of care. Open and delicate to all team members' unique
contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and
ensures timely follow-up.
- Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for
problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that
resources are limited and considers factors related to safety,
effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient
care.
- Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work
environment through participating in mutual governance and
conclusion-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the
contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from
education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and
fulfills to ongoing professional growth through continuing
education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and
involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study,
professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees.
Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues
and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
- Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards
and procedures.
- Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and
guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and
department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures
governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of
assignment.
- Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of
health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention
and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their
physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse
reactions.
- Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and
patient privacy rights.
- Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and
in writing.
- Social skills to interact with a wide-range of
constituencies.
- Must have critical thinking and problem-solving
skills.
- Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients
and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff
members and physicians/providers.
- Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care
to all patients through the nursing process and standards of
nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human
experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary,
modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate
patients.
- General computer skills, including but not limited to:
Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll
systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to
5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
Baylor Scott and White Job ID #23015281. Posted job title: RN LTAC
NightsAbout Baylor Scott & White HealthAs the largest
not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas, Baylor Scott &
White promotes the health and well-being of every individual,
family and community it serves. It is committed to making quality
care more accessible, convenient and affordable through its
integrated delivery network, which includes the Baylor Scott &
White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, the
Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance and its leading digital
health platform - MyBSWHealth. Through 51 hospitals and more than
1,100 access points, including flagship academic medical centers in
Dallas, Fort Worth and Temple, the system offers the full continuum
of care, from primary to award-winning specialty care. Founded as a
Christian ministry of healing more than a century ago, Baylor Scott
& White today serves more than three million Texans.Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- Continuing Education
- 401k retirement plan
- Wellness and fitness programs
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Benefits start day 1
- Life insurance
- Discount program
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