RN - Nurse Residency, Beaumont - October 2026 Program

<strong>Description </strong><br>Summary:<br>Responsible for patient assessment, patient care planning, and provision of quality nursing care to an assigned group of patients for a defined work period. Provides direction and supervision to LVN/LPNs, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, and other clinical/clerical associates. By assignment, may function as a charge nurse for the unit. Involves provision of patient care/service to older adolescents, young adults, adults, geriatric and pediatric patients.<br>Responsibilities:<br><ul><li>Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders. </li><li>Patient Care Planning </li><li>Develops a comprehensive nursing care plan which addresses all significant needs and problems identified through nursing assessment. </li><li>Prepares nursing elements of the interdisciplinary care plan prior to the initial team conference. </li><li>Reviews and updates nursing care plan and collaborates with team members as changes occur. </li><li>Patient Care Provision </li><li>Implements patient care as planned in nursing care plan and interdisciplinary care plan. </li><li>Sets priorities based on knowledge of patient acuity and patient needs. </li><li>Provides safe and therapeutic care and seeks resources when appropriate. </li><li>Safely performs and accurately documents procedures, consistent with established nursing policy and procedure. </li><li>Patient Care Evaluation </li><li>Evaluates patient response to interventions and attainment of goals in collaboration with interdisciplinary team. </li><li>Evaluates progress toward nursing goals and revises goals as needed on a weekly basis. </li><li>Completes nursing progress note for assigned patients on a daily basis. </li><li>Completes nursing flow sheets for assigned patients on a daily basis. </li><li>Teaching </li><li>Evaluates education needs of patient and significant others and documents their response to teaching. </li><li>Utilizes, adapts, and revises teaching resources to meet patient education needs. </li><li>Explains procedures, tests, and disease process to patients and families as needed. </li><li>Acts as role model for health care students and other team members. </li><li>Acts as preceptor to assigned orientees. </li><li>Assists in the orientation of new staff by sharing knowledge and experience. </li><li>Patient Care Communication </li><li>Reports and documents accurately and concisely to appropriate persons the patient's condition. </li><li>Maintains patient confidentiality. </li><li>Applies basic verbal and nonverbal skills to maintain open, effective communication among care team members, patients, and significant others. </li><li>Encourages direct discussion between staff members when differences occur and seeks assistance to arbitrate differences as needed. </li><li>Gives and accepts constructive feedback appropriately. </li><li>Identifies actual and potentially unsafe patient care practices, reports them in the designated manner, and suggests alternatives. </li> </ul>CORE COMPETENCIES<br>Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process<br><ul><li>Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, </li><li>Spiritual, and development needs of patient and families </li><li>Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members </li><li>Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient </li><li>needs using evidence-based practice. Implements patient care and therapeutic </li><li>procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals </li><li>Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to </li><li>the care and treatment(s). Performs timely reassessment and documentation </li><li>Must be able to perform unit specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for designated unit's patient population </li> </ul>Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process<br><ul><li>Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow </li><li>Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process </li><li>Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy </li> </ul>Standard III. Unit Operations<br><ul><li>Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift </li><li>Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies </li><li>Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts. </li><li>Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry </li> </ul>Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations<br><ul><li>Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes </li><li>Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities </li><li>Provides evidence-based nursing care </li><li>Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care </li><li>Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry. </li><li>Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities </li> </ul>TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES<br>Clinical Policies and Standards<br><ul><li>Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures </li><li>Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance </li><li>Provides feedback for improvement of procedures </li><li>Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures </li><li>Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques </li> </ul>Health Information Documentation<br><ul><li>Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation </li><li>Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records </li><li>Describes the flow of information between various stations or units </li><li>Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation </li><li>Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy </li><li>Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices </li> </ul>Medical Equipment<br><ul><li>Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility </li><li>Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems </li><li>Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment </li><li>Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety </li><li>Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment </li> </ul>Medical Order Processing<br><ul><li>Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions </li><li>Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders </li><li>Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting </li><li>Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders </li><li>Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each </li> </ul>Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation<br><ul><li>Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care </li><li>Reviews patients' charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions </li><li>Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff </li><li>Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned </li><li>Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others </li> </ul>Patient Safety<br><ul><li>Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings </li><li>Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings </li><li>Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members </li><li>Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems </li><li>Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others </li><li>Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real time </li> </ul> Job Requirements:<br><strong>Education/Skills </strong><br><ul><li>Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred </li> </ul><strong>Experience </strong><br><ul><li>Six months to a year of experience as a licensed RN or holder of an active GN permit </li> </ul><strong>Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications </strong><br><ul><li>BLS required </li><li>RN License in state of employment or compact </li><li>Graduate Nurse Permit <ul><li>Associates with an unsuccessful licensure application or on the 75th day following the effective date of the temporary permit; will be transferred to another position within CHRISTUS Health </li> </ul> </li> </ul>In accordance with the CHRISTUS Health License, Certification and Registration Verification Policy, all Associates are required to obtain the required certifications for their respective positions within the designated time frame.<br>Work Schedule:<br>3 Days - 12 Hours<br>Work Type:<br>Full Time