Job Description

Medical Unit Nurse Full Time Day Shift at San Juan Regional Medical Center summary:

The Medical Unit Nurse provides compassionate and individualized patient care, utilizing the nursing process to ensure dynamic patient management. This role requires adherence to state licensure regulations, life support certifications, and organizational values promoting safety, teamwork, and quality initiatives. The nurse operates in a physically demanding environment, maintaining effective communication and professionalism while supporting acutely ill patients and their families.

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
• 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
• Actively participates in the department
• 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 50 pounds and push 0-300 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

Keywords:

Registered Nurse, patient care, nursing process, life support certification, clinical competency, teamwork, safety initiatives, healthcare, patient management, compassionate care

Job Tags

Full time, Day shift,

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