RN, LVN, CNA - Nurses Needed! - Flexibility! - Bilingual a Plus Job in Houston 77057, Texas US

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RN, LVN, CNA - Nurses Needed! - Flexibility! - Bilingual a Plus Job in Houston 77057, Texas US
CompanyBerry HealthcareLocationHouston, TX 77057IndustriesHealthcare ServicesMedical Devices and SuppliesJob TypeFull Time Part Time Per Diem Temporary/Contract/Project Employee
RN, LVN, CNA - Nurses Needed! - Flexibility! - Bilingual a Plus
About the Job

Berry Healthcare provides flexible nurse (RN, LVN, CNA) staffing solutions to Hospitals, Hospices, Nursing Homes, Doctor Offices, and Home Health Agencies. We provide flexibility to nurses and pay HIGH rates.

Registered Nurse (RN)

Description:

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

Duties:

* Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.

* Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

* Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.

* Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.

* Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

* Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.

* Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

* Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

* Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

* Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. title:nurse, registered

* Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.

* Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.

* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

* Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:

Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)

Description:

Serves patients by providing disease screening; administering immunizations.

Duties:

* Obtains health history and/or immunication status by interviewing patient and/or relative.

* Determines suspicion of presence of disease by performing screening tests.

* Records patient statistics by measuring and recording height/length and weight, blood pressure, and pulse.

* Immunizes patients by preparing, administering, and recording immunizations.

* Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.

* Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock; placing orders; verifying receipt.

* Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.

* Avoids legal challenges by keeping patient information confidential.

* Serves and protects the clinic by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.

* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.

* Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Skills/Qualifications:

Infection Control, FDA Health Regulations, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Nursing Skills, Bedside Manner, Medical Teamwork, Thoroughness, Self-Development, Multi-tasking, Dependability, Organization

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Description:

Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring.

Duties:

* Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.

* Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.

* Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, nonsterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.

* Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.

* Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.

* Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.

* Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.

* Protects organization's value by keeping patient information confidential.

* Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.

* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.

* Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Skills/Qualifications:

Multi-tasking, Medical Teamwork, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Creating a Safe, Effective Environment, Informing Others, Judgment, Pain Management, Acute/Critical Carehttp://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/745...h.blogspot.com


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