Childbirth Unit RN Full Time Special Care Nursery Nights 1900-0730 72 Hour Bi-weekly

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