Description
Introduction
Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) RN Sepsis Coordinator today with HCA Florida Westside Hospital.
Benefits
HCA Florida Westside Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
- Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Come join our team as a(an) RN Sepsis Coordinator. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated 13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!
Job Summary and Qualifications
Facilitates the development, implementation and ongoing adherence of sepsis program protocols and therapies. Ensures protocols and therapies become the standard of care followed within the facility. Collaborates with medical and hospital staff to provide multidisciplinary care to patients with a diagnosis of sepsis. Rounds with Physicians with diagnosis of sepsis, reviews clinical data. Provides education and clinical expertise to care team, patients, and families. Collaborates with physicians and staff in an effort to decrease mortality and length of stay. Identifies and integrates patient learning needs, abilities and readiness into the Plan of Care. Works in collaboration with the nursing team to develop and implement individualized teaching plans for patients and families. Collects and analyzes sepsis program patient data to assist with documentation, clinical care, and improved outcomes. Participates in rounding and proactively responds to patient needs to improve patient outcomes and positively impact overall patient experience. Contributes to a culture of patient centered care by ensuring a quiet healing environment.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:
- Completes position responsibilities following established guidelines and protocols within appropriate time frame. Demonstrate ability to set priorities.
- Performs well in stressful situations.
- Ensures accuracy and completeness of standards of practice in specific specialty.
- Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to volume, census and acuity. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of work practices.
- Follows through with assignments and informs supervisor is unable to complete task.
- Acquires knowledge and skills appropriate to the specialty area, practice setting, role or situation.
- Acquires knowledge and skills appropriate to the specialty area, practice setting, role or situation.
- Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patients health by involving the patient, family and other healthcare providers.
- Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patients health by involving the patient, family and other healthcare providers.
- Completes, correlates, documents and reports alterations in diagnostic findings or deviations from usual progressions of illness/condition with critical care patients clinical presentation and initiates nursing action.
- Uses physician contact, nursing notes, assessment-reassessment and others as documentation tools.
- Completes, correlates, documents, and reports alterations in diagnostic findings or deviations from usual progressions of illness/condition with critical care patients clinical presentation and initiates nursing action.
- Uses Physician contact, nursing notes, assessment-reassessment and others as documentation tools.
- Delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
- Delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity ,and rights.
- Demonstrates a commitment to practice self-care, managing stress, and connecting with self and others. Demonstrates a commitment to practice self-care. managing stress and connecting with self and others. Demonstrates ability and knowledge to provide care to patient on CRRT, Arctic Sun.
- Participated in education classes. Demonstrates energy, excitement, passion for quality work.
- Demonstrates caring, pride and dignity in their work.
- Measured by demonstration of use of the Caring Model, Service Excellence standards and by the support of the Mission and Vision of WRMC. Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to volume, census and acuity. Demonstrates knowledge by successfully completes required hospital competencies regarding medications/drips, interpretation of EKG strips, ABGs, disease processes, treatments and nursing assessment and interventions. Demonstrates quality by documenting the application of the nursing process in a responsible, accountable and ethical manner.
- Demonstrates understanding of patient’s hemodynamic status and reports critical changes in condition to the physician. Documents the communication in Physician contact, nursing notes. Develops the plan and establishes the plan priorities with the patients, family and others as appropriate.
- Documents the daily plan of care /goals for the patient in Meditech and white board in patient room. Engages in team work as a team player and a team builder.
- Follows the appropriate policies or processes for acknowledging physician orders, initiation of approved protocols, transferring or discharge processes.
- Patients going for procedures or OR.
- Completes the appropriate documentation in Meditech and assures the proper paperwork follows the patient. Follows the appropriate process for bed management, patient throughput by assuring effectiveness, positive patient outcome with high quality care and high patient satisfaction.
- Follows the Standards of care for Critical care regarding assessment, data collection, plan of care, documentation.
- Shows high competence of using Meditech.
- Able to navigate with confidence and retrieve patient care information. Follows through with assignments and informs supervisor if unable to complete task.
- Follows with the unit/hospital initiatives throughout the year and assures consistency, self-accountability in executing. Interacts with peers and colleagues to provide feedback and enhance ones own professional nursing practice and/or role performance. Involves the patient, family, and other healthcare providers in formulating expected outcomes when possible and appropriate. Participates in ongoing education activities related to appropriate knowledge bases and professional issues yearly competencies, evaluation education requirements and etc.
- Participates in quality improvement activity, such as but not limited to collecting data; to monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing practice; analyzing the data to identify opportunities for improvement; formulating recommendation to improve nursing practice or outcomes.
- Provides effective hand off communication with other departments, at change of shift, during assignment coverage. Shows knowledge and understanding of shift change rounds and hourly rounds. Able to document the above as required. Provides health teaching that addresses such topics as risk reducing behaviors, developmental needs, preventive self-care, activities of daily leaving. Documents in Meditech.
- Supports the initiative for Patient Center Care as developed by HCA
- Uses health teaching methods appropriate to the situation and the patients developmental level, learning needs, readiness, language preference, culture.
- Seeks opportunities for feedback and evaluation of the effectiveness of the strategies used. Documents the education provided as required in Meditech.
What qualifications you will need:
- Current Florida license as Registered Nurse or Recognized Compact Licensure (subject to Florida State Licensing Requirements, including/not limited to ongoing eligibility and duration provisions)
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing, Bachelors degree in nursing preferred.
- Current Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association Current ACLS certification through the American Heart Association.
- Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience preferred.
- Completion of Basic Arrhythmia course with a minimum of 16 hours of didactic instruction preferred; Critical Care Course preferred.
- Certification as CCRN preferred.
HCA Florida Westside Hospital is a 250-bed medical center and healthcare complex. Our facility was founded in 1974. We offer the latest in minimally invasive spine and colorectal surgery. We are one of nine Joint Commission-certified centers in the United States for minimally invasive colorectal surgery. Our Comprehensive Stroke Center is certified by the Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA). We are certified as a Thrombectomy Capable Center by the Joint Commission. We are a teaching and research facility. We offer Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs in podiatry, surgery, and internal medicine. We are committed to expanding and improving every facet of the organization. We devote significant time and resources to enhancing our facility, staff, and medical care. Our medical services and compassionate care, illustrate why we are one of the leading healthcare facilities in South Florida. At HCA Florida Westside Hospital, we care like family! Join our family-oriented team of more than 1,200 professionals and nearly 750 physicians.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patients family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our RN Sepsis Coordinator opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
