Nurse Medical Surgical in Spring Valley, NV

As the community’s only not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system; Dignity Health Nevada has been guided by the vision and core values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for more than 70 years. As the Henderson and Las Vegas communities grow, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican facilities and its more than 3,400 employees will continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need. St. Rose Dominican is a member of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems, a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 60,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. • ASSESSMENT: The registered nurse completes initial patient assessment and reassessments as indicated by patient condition, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • CRITICAL THINKING: The registered nurse demonstrates critical thinking by implementing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) and using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • PHYSICAL ABILITIES: The registered nurse has the physical ability to safely and effectively care for patient population assigned and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION: The registered nurse manages medication administration and intravenous (IV) access according to physician's orders and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.\ • DOCUMENTATION: The registered nurse documents nursing care and patient status in accordance with the nursing process and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • COMMUNICATION: The registered nurse has communication abilities sufficient to promote patient and family centered care by interacting with patients, families, and care-delivery team in verbal and written form and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • PATIENT SAFETY: The registered nurse employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • QUALITY OF PRACTICE: The registered nurse systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice and delivery of patient care and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: The registered nurse attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice; and evaluates practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • ETHICS: The registered nurse integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • NURSE THEORIST: The registered nurse integrates Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring into practice and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: The registered nurse integrates research findings into practice and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. • LEADERSHIP: The registered nurse provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards. MINIMUM: • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing,and One (1) year experience as an RN in an acute care setting or successful completion of applicable clinical and didactic SRDH specialty training course(s)or program. • Registered Nurse: NV. • Basic Life Support - CPR • Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements. PREFERRED: • Bachelors Of Science Nursing, and Two (2) years experience as an RN in an acute care setting.