POSITION SUMMARY

Provides overall direction for the nursing unit in assessing, implementing, and evaluating patient care. Serves as a liaison to the clinical coordinator or assistant director and unit director.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Education None Minimum Work Experience None Required Licenses/Certifications:

 Current licensure with the State of Texas, Appropriate CPR Certification.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

 General knowledge of basic bedside nursing. Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on the physical, psychosocial, educational, safety and related criteria appropriate to age of the patients served in assigned area/department. The skills and knowledge to provide such care are gained through education, training, and/or experience. Preferred Qualification Specialty Certification. Required certifications are to be obtained within one year of service.

ICU--ACLS & TNCC

within 6 months of hire date. Telemetry-ACLS, Surgical-ACLS. TNCC within 6 months of hire date

JOB SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS 1.

Reinforces HMHD's values and promotes HMHD's Compliance Plan and understanding of applicable laws and standards. 2. Demonstrates proficiency in understanding the materials presented during the corporate integrity and compliance training and education program. 3. Attends the required corporate integrity and compliance training and education programs. 4. Ensures department employees attended (in a timely manner) the compliance training in accordance with HMHD policies. 5. Assists the Compliance Officer and the Executive Compliance Committee in identifying "high risk" issues within his/her department. 6. Complies with all HIPAA standards. 7. General knowledge of basic bedside nursing. Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on the physical,psychosocial,education,safety and related criteria appropriate to age of the patients served in assigned area/department. The skills and knowledge to provide such care is gained through education,training, and/or experience. 8. Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies. 9. Maintains nursing staff job performance by coaching, counseling, and disciplinging employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job performance. 10. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends and family to understand condition, medications and self-care skills; answering questions. 11. Assures quality of care by adhering to theraputic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hosptial and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice acts and other governing agency regulations 12. Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; calling for assitance from health care support personnel.