Nurse Technician - Medicine Specialty Step Down - Days And Nights Available - Prn

Position Title:
Nurse Technician - Medicine Specialty Step Down - Days and Nights Available - PRN
Department:
Med Specialty Step Down
Job Description:
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Location: University of Oklahoma Medical Center 6W
Shift Available: PRN 7a-7p or 7p-7a
Working in OU Health's Medicine Specialty/Critical Care Stepdown, you have the opportunity to gain critical thinking, communication skills, time management, while making an impact in our community. This 31-bed Step Down unit is looking for team-oriented motivated, compassionate, and disciplined nurses who crave a stimulating learning experience. Our nurses provide care for patients with complex, varied, multifaceted disease processes and administer various drips (insulin, heparin, ketamine and cardiac). As a nurse in Medicine Specialty/Critical Care Stepdown, you will learn, and gain a deeper understanding of disease processes and care for patients with conditions ranging from renal failure, blood disorders, liver disease, pyschiatric, diabetes, respiratory failure, septic patients and more!
General Description:
Under general supervision of a registered nurse, performs routine tasks in patient care.
Essential Responsibilities:
Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• Under direct supervision of the RN and in collaboration with the patient and family, systematically and continually monitors the patient's health status and implements the plan of care.
• Carries out physician and nursing orders as directed by the RN.
• Takes/records blood pressures, temperatures, pulse and weighs patients.
• Performs blood glucose monitoring.
• Monitors intravenous infusions and transfusions as directed by RN.
• Sets up and discontinues telemetry monitor.
• Collects specimens as directed.
• Applies sterile dressings, removal of sutures, staples and/or drains. Performs all sterile procedures as assigned.
• Performs stomal irrigation and applies colostomy pouches.
• Performs oral and tracheostomy suctioning.
• Administers tube feedings to patients.
• Takes emergency actions as required.
• Performs all treatments and procedures as defined on initial skills checklist.
• Reports symptoms and significant changes in patient's condition or behavior to RN.
• Assists with admission, discharge and transfer process.
• Transports patients to and from various treatment centers when necessary; assists transporters in moving patients in and out of stretchers and wheelchairs.
• Keeps the patient's room in clean and orderly condition; makes beds, replaces soiled linen.
• Assists in restocking rooms with supplies and equipment as directed.
• Duties may be performed for one patient or more than one patient.
• When assigned to one patient, provides care, observes the patient and does not leave the patient alone.

General Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:
Education & Experience: Six (6) months experience in a healthcare setting OR completion of a health related vocational education course of at least 3 months OR completion of the first semester of clinical education in an associate or bachelor's degree program from a non-nursing health care discipline.
License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Current Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association required upon hire.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of basic nursing techniques and procedures.
• Ability to communicate effectively, and follow written and oral instructions; and to maintain effective working relations with others.

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