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Posted: 08-Jan-26
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Internal Number: 26000572
Join Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth as a Registered Nurse and be part of something better!
Our Mother/Baby Unit is a fast-paced environment that includes high acuity?patients. Are you looking to increase your knowledge base? Our Mother Baby leadership team fosters an environment that supports?learning, mentoring, and building every team member.?
Mother Baby
Patient Population:?Postpartum and Normal Newborn
Patient Ratios: 1:3 Couplets (typically could have a mix of 6 patients, i.e. 4 moms, 2 babies)
Number of Beds: 50 beds
Department Specifics:?Largest number of deliveries in Tarrant County and growing, Maternal Designation Level IV, Magnet, Texas Ten Step, cross train to NICU low risk and GYN, 150+ staff which includes Nurses, Tech, Health Unit Coordinators, Lactation Consultants, and Family Resource.
Shift: Full Time Nights; 7p-7a
Experience Required: 1 year of recent Mother/Baby experience
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth, located near downtown Fort Worth, is an award-winning full-service hospital dedicated to providing for the health care needs of the Fort Worth community. Baylor Scott & White - Fort Worth is among Tarrant County?s oldest not-for-profit hospitals and celebrated 100 years of service in 2006. The medical center has 538 licensed beds and offers a broad range of medical services including programs of excellence in cardiology, transplantation. Oncology, and women?s services. Baylor All Saints has achieved many awards and accolades including accreditation in the Magnet Recognition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and in 2022 US News & World Report rankings - was ranked #22 in Texas and #7 in the Dallas-Ft Worth metropolitan area for high performing in heart failure, colon cancer, COPD, Heart Attack, kidney failure and pneumonia.
AWH Information
Currently the only dedicated women?s hospital in Fort Worth, Andrews Women?s Hospital delivers almost 6,000 babies annually - more than any other facility in Tarrant County and in the Baylor Scott & White Health System. Andrew?s Women?s Hospital offers a variety of labor and delivery services, including maternity, high-risk pregnancy care, a level III neonatal intensive care unit among others. Our 63 - bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is designed to care for the tiniest infants dealing with the most serious medical challenges. It is one of the largest NICUs in North Texas with a highly skilled team of neonatologists on our medical staff, neonatal nurse practitioners, respiratory and occupational therapists, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers, chaplains, and registered nurses working together to care you your whole family. Andrew?s Women?s Hospital has recently been designated as a Level IV maternal care center, the top designation from the Texas Department of State Health Services. A Level IV designation is awarded to hospitals that proved the highest possible comprehensive care and underscores the facility?s ability to treat even the most complex cases.
Today, Baylor Scott & White Fort Worth employs 2400 team members, 1400 physicians and is designated by US News & World Report as one of the best regional hospitals in DFW.
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.
RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.
Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
QUALIFICATIONS
- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program
- MAJOR - Nursing
Experience Required: 1 year of recent Mother/Baby experience
- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION -
Registered Nurse (RN)
Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.