Registered Nurse, Full-time, Days, Postpartum Job at Howard University Hospital, Washington DC

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  • Howard University Hospital
  • Washington DC

Job Description

With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nations only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.

Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Clinical  Registered Nurse in  Postpartum  who will embrace our reach and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someones life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference. 

This full time position requires three 12-hour day shifts per week, including every other weekend, 7:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m.

The Clinical Registered Nurse:
  • Collaborates with patient/family and health care team to determine health goals and interventions and to revise plans of care as needed
  • Maintains awareness of the units periodic statistics regarding core measures, nursing quality indicators, customer satisfaction measures, and actively participates in activities/behaviors that progressively improve the statistics
  • Provides nursing care consistent with the nursing practice standards, policies and procedures established by the unit, department, division, and institution, professional ethics and standards, and legal requirements
  • Serves in the rotational role of charge nurse upon completion of the 6 month orientation period, and with approval by the nurse manager
  • Participates in unit performance improvement programs through ongoing design, assessment and measurement, and performance improvement activities
  • 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 Nurse Practice Act of the District of Columbia, and other governing agency regulations
  • Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
  • 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
  • Demonstrates competency in clinical skills, bedside manner, infection control, physiological knowledge, administering medication, medical teamwork, multi-tasking, listening, verbal communication, health promotion and maintenance

Qualified Candidate will possess:

  • Associates Degree Required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred
  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
  • Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the District of Columbia
  • Certification in Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association 
  • NRP, ACLS, and PALS are also required
  • 2+ years  Acute Care (hospital-based) Labor & Delivery, ObGyn, Mother Baby, Perinatal or Postpartum experience required

 
At Howard University Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:

Work-life balance
Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, vacation, sick leave, and 403B retirement plan)
100% tuition remission for employees and their dependent children, after 1 and 2 years respectively

COVID-19 Vaccination:

Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment.  External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location. 

#GR8 Nursing

Job Tags

Full time, Day shift, 3 days per week,

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