At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. We are located in the heart of Powell, Wyoming; just 25 miles outside of Cody. We believe in creating positive and safe environments for both our patients and our staff. Being part of our organization means becoming a cornerstone in the patient experience and their care. 

Here at PVHC, we offer a wide array of benefits in a way that allows you to choose options and build a package that works best for you. Some of the benefits we offer include: 

  • Health, dental and vision insurance 
  • Life insurance 
  • Long term disability coverage 
  • PTO – New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year 
  • EIB (Extended Illness Bank) – Our version of accrued sick leave 
  • Nine paid holidays which includes two personal holidays 
  • Tuition Savings Plan 
  • Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills 
  • Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year 
  • Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount 
  • HRA – Flex spending accounts 

POSITION SUMMARY:

Current Opening: One Part-time position (20-29 hours per week) and one PRN position.

Responsible for the delivery of safe, efficient, quality patient/resident care through the use of the nursing process which consists of assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation.  Initiates, plans and participates in patient/resident and family education.  Supervises and guides those who report to him or her and accepts responsibility for care given.  Maintains the standards for professional nursing.  Works in collaboration with all members of the healthcare team, as well as with the patients/residents, families and visitors.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Prepares and updates a plan of care for each patient/resident using the nursing process. 
  • Gathers subjective and objective data through the performance of a nursing history and physical assessment as well as the gathering of information from the EHR and other members of the Health Care Team.
  • Analyzes the data and identifies actual/potential problems.  Establishes priorities from the problem list, which will direct patient/resident care.
  • Establishes short and long-term goals and establishes interventions to be used to meet the goals. 
  • Evaluates patient/resident response to care provided and documents the care and response to care in a concise, legible manner using the format designated by departmental protocols or appropriately in the electronic medical record.
  • Develops a discharge plan upon admission and throughout the stay in collaboration with the patient/resident, family, physician, and other Health Care Team Members. 
  • Identifies learning needs of the patient/resident and/or family, assess the ability of patient/resident/family members to learn and learning readiness.  Provides educational materials and experiences that will meet the educational, developmental, functional and/or ethnic needs of the patient/resident and/or family.
  • Provides an accurate account of patient/resident status to others responsible for the patient’s/resident’s care to help ensure continuity of care. 
  • Demonstrates competency in psychosocial and psychomotor aspects of nursing.
  • Implements nursing actions by either direct care or delegation of that responsibility, based on level of acuity and individual patient need.
  • Understands and reacts effectively to unique needs of patients whose age may range from premature infant to elderly adult.
  • Implements the plan of care by provision of direct care or by delegation, based on the acuity of the patient/resident, the functional or developmental age of the patient/resident, and by the competencies exhibited by the nurse.
  • Ability to work with confused or combative patients/residents. 
  • Evaluates nursing practice and nursing environment and contributes to the development of high standards to ensure quality care. 
  • Attends staff meetings and in-services as required by Powell Valley Healthcare and by accrediting agencies.  Participates in special projects or assignments.
  • Responds to change in patient/resident care assignments and delegates patient/resident care safely and effectively. 
  • Demonstrates an awareness of cost effective patient/resident care delivery.
  • Actively participates in professional development by attending educational programs offered inside and outside of the organization. 
  • Demonstrates competency in basic computer skills through the capacity to learn and apply electronic applications.
  • When census is low in patient volume is willing to transfer to other areas of the organization to cover patient care areas, as directed by supervisor. 
  • Advanced nursing assessments and procedures.
  • Performs venipuncture, IV placement, accessing central lines, accessing port-a-catheter and PICC lines, drawing blood and intravenous medication administration including chemotherapy/biotherapy and blood products.
  • Prepares nursing care plans, coordinate and implement effective nursing care and to develop solutions to problems concerning patients’ mental or physical well-being.
  • Works effectively with nursing, allied health and medical personal of all levels and disciplines
  • Serve as resource to patients, families, and other health care providers as it relates to oncology services and related patient care.  Accountable to provide clinically sound information.
  • Develops and implements continued education for staff training.
  • Coordinate care of patient referral regarding scheduling of infusions to be performed with all departments that are involved.
  • Create and update policy and procedure manual for infusion services as needed. 
  • Concentrate and pay close attention to detail when planning and performing professional nursing care; resolving patient care problems and dealing with patients and their families, often during difficult or stressful situations
  • Resourceful in dealing with difficult or emergency situations

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ability to supervise the nursing process of infusion therapy staff members for day to day operations.  Coordinate staffing schedule to meet needs of infusion services patients/residents and overseeing provider.  Including but not limited to pharmacy, patient financial services, and registration staff.  Participate in evaluations of staff.

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION, and EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
  • Registered Nurse (RN), licensed in the state of Wyoming
  • 5 years of nursing experience preferred
  • Infusion experience and chemo certified preferred
  • BLS, ACLS, and PALS for Healthcare Provider
  • ONC certified within three years of hire
  • Certified to administer Chemotherapy Infusions within three months of hire.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, compute rate, ratio, and percent in order to accurately determine medication dosages and establish accurate intravenous rates. 
  • Knowledgeable in metric and household measurements and can convert from one system to the other as needed. 
  •  Competency in basic computer skills and willingness to learn electronic applications.
  • Work with confused and/or combative patients/residents.
  • Read and comprehend simple instructions and memos.
  • Ability to write simple corespondence.
  • Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
  • Speak and document clearly and concisely.
  • Communicate effectively and professionally with members of the Health Care Team.
  • Solve practical problems and work under direction of licensed nursing staff.
  • Demonstrates an awareness of cost-effective patient/resident delivery.
  • Demonstrates competency in psychosocial and psychomotor aspects of nursing.
  • Implements nursing actions by either direct care of delegation of that responsibility, based on level of acuity and individual patient need.
  • Understands and reacts effectively to unique needs of patients whose age may range from premature infant to elderly adult.
  • Implements the plan of care by provision of direct care of by delegation, based on the acuity of the patient/resident, the functional or developmental age of the patient/resident, and by the competencies exhibited by the nurse.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS:

  • Regularly lifting or move objects weighing 10 to 50 pounds
  • Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
  • Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, walking, standing, and working with equipment.
  • Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
  • The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and bodily fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.