Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
The Registered Nurse is a sincerely caring and compassionate professional and assumes accountability in utilizing the nursing process to provide dynamic patient management.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- Current licensure by the State Board of Nursing of New Mexico or compact (multi-state) license
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
- Must meet the requirements for obtaining and maintaining life support certifications as outlined in the Life Support Certification policy
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides individualized patient care and maintains clinical competency appropriate for the area of practice
- Prioritizes patient care based on acuity and assures continuity of safe/effective care of patients
- Understands and follows policy and procedure in addition to meeting licensure requirements
- Responsive to current safety and quality initiatives and sustains improvement
- Builds productive interpersonal relationships in every encounter
- Demonstrates teamwork and delegates appropriately to other team members
- Actively participates in the department
- Proactively seeks continued growth and development
- Supports the philosophy of San Juan Regional Medical Center by facilitating the cooperation of the hospital staff in a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving.
- Upholds established Core Values, Standards of Practice, Standards of Care, philosophy, and goals of the Nursing Department and organization.
- Serves as a role model for staff by demonstrating a positive attitude and holistic approach to patient care and a commitment to the nursing process.
- Assesses the patient’s condition and nursing needs utilizing the nursing process
- Is able to deliver interdisciplinary care to patients across the lifespan: OB/Peds through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation and appropriately documents the care of assigned patients.
- Sets expected outcomes/goals and prescribes appropriate nursing interventions in cooperation with the patient, the patient’s family and/or the significant other.
- Uses advanced and specialized knowledge and skills to proficiently assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document the care of assigned patients.
- Assesses the patient/family significant other’s educational needs and develops an appropriate plan to meet the needs as evidenced by documentation on the Patient’s Plan of Care.
- Follows guidelines described in the Ethics and Compliance Code of Conduct Compliance Plan.
- Demonstrates an understanding of DNV accrediting process as it pertains to his/her position and responsibilities and responds accordingly.
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance
- Must be able to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently
- Must be able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds frequently
- Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids and meets OSHA training requirements
Special Demands:
- Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile, or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care
- Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families
