Full-Time
Registered Nurse New Grad
Johnson Regional Medical Center
Community hospital and medical services
No salary listed
Clarksville, AR, USA
In Person
Bachelor's
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
Medication Administration
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Patient Education
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current state Registered Nurse licensure within the state of practice.
- Graduate of an accredited Licensed Practical Nurse program.
- Current Licensed Practical Nurse licensure within the state of Arkansas.
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
- Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Basic computer knowledge.
- Able to meet the position's physical and safety-sensitive requirements, including frequent standing and walking, lifting up to 100 pounds, carrying up to 40 pounds, and pushing or pulling up to 450 pounds.
- Maintains patient confidentiality and complies with applicable regulatory, accrediting, ethical, and organizational standards.
- Completes required education, in-services, staff meetings, and performance-improvement activities.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct and indirect patient care.
- Communicates changes in patients' clinical conditions to physicians, the Nurse Manager, and co-workers, including diagnostic results and symptomatology.
- Responds quickly and accurately to changes in patient condition or response to treatment.
- Performs general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision.
- Performs head-to-toe assessments and reassessments for pediatric, geriatric, and general patient populations.
- Assesses and reassesses pain, applies appropriate pain-management techniques, and educates patients and families about pain management.
- Revises plans of care based on patient responses and evaluates the overall plan daily for effectiveness.
- Performs waived point-of-care testing, interprets results, and takes appropriate action.
- Administers medications correctly based on patient age and clinical condition while following the seven medication rights.
- Develops and evaluates teaching plans based on identified learning needs, including family education as appropriate.
- Assists physicians with procedures and performs treatments and services within licensure.
- Addresses patients' psychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and religious or spiritual needs and serves as a liaison among administration, patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers.
- Involves patients and families in formation of the plan of care.
- Provides age-appropriate care using principles of growth and development across the life span.
- Performs patient care in a manner that promotes safety and reduces healthcare errors.
- Consults other departments to support an interdisciplinary approach to patient needs.
- Communicates appropriately with the Nurse Manager, co-workers, and physicians.
- Communicates with Social Services or the Discharge Planner about inpatient and post-discharge needs.
- Completes documentation according to current standards and policies.
- Operates equipment safely and correctly.
- Coordinates and supervises patient care as necessary.
Desired Qualifications
- Additional spoken languages are preferred.
Johnson Regional Medical Center is a community hospital serving Clarksville and the surrounding Arkansas River Valley. It provides emergency and inpatient care alongside surgery, diagnostics, rehabilitation and outpatient medical services, supported by local physicians and clinical teams. The hospital helps residents access essential care closer to home while coordinating transfers or specialist referrals when needed. Its identity is that of an independent regional medical center rooted in Johnson County, not a similarly named hospital system in another state.
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