ClinicalFT (Full time)

5Req # 5230

Registered Nurse

IV Therapy 

Full Time

 

Job Summary:

Provides direct and indirect patient care; communicates with physicians about changes in patient’s clinical condition including assessment, planning and implementation of patient care; is able to respond quickly and accurately to changes in patient’s condition or response to treatment; is able to perform general nursing duties; participates in departmental process improvement (PI) projects.

 

Education Requirements:

Associate Degree in Nursing Required. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Preferred.  Must maintain continuing education hours as required by state of residence licensure.

 

Certification & Licensure Requirements:

Mississippi Board of Nursing or Compact State Licensure as a Registered Nurse.  Must maintain current BLS certification. 

 

Experience:

Healthcare/Medical as a registered nurse preferred but not required.

 

Language/Communication Skills: 

English Required.  Multi-Lingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job. Must have the ability to speak effectively and professionally to all staff, management, and all outside individuals at all levels from elementary to professional.

 

Mathematical Skills:

Skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, fractions, and decimals without a calculator.  Skills in performing operations with units such as cup, pint, and quart; inch, foot, yard; ounce and pound.  Knowledge of the metric system units (length, area, volume, capacity, mass and weight) and U.S. equivalents.  Skill in computing ratios, rates and percentages.

 

Reasoning Ability:

Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors, and staff.  Critical thinking and multitasking skills a must.  Must have reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.  Must possess purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.