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As
a nurse do you aspire to be the best provider of patient
centered care that you can be? If so, North Mississippi Medical
Center in Tupelo is the place for you. Our vision is to be the
provider of the best patient centered care and health services
in America. We count on nurses who want to be the best in their
field and give them every opportunity to excel in their career.
Behavioral Health
Cardiac Care
As a critical care nurse, you will utilize the latest monitoring technologies including intra-aortic balloon pumps, arterial and Swan Ganz Lines, SVO2 Monitors, left atrial lines, ICP monitors, end tidal volume CO2 monitors and pulse oximeters. You will assist physicians with inserting a variety of catheters and chest tubes and with performing such procedures as thoracentesis, intubations and tracheostomies. In addition, you will use a variety of equipment and instruments such as cardiac monitors, hemodynamic modules, flexible laryngoscopes, multiple-line infusion pumps, blood pressure monitors, defibrillators, external pacemakers and IABPs. Pulmonary Care Unit: NMMC has a pulmonary care unit with two levels of care, a five-bed intensive care and a 10-bed step-down. However, other types of medical and surgical patients are served as the need may arise. The unit’s focus is on progressive treatment of patients with pulmonary problems. Once the condition is stabilized and the need for intensive nursing care is no longer required, the patient is moved into the step-down unit. Diagnoses include, but are not limited to, COPD, pneumonia, ARDS and respiratory failure. Aspects of care include continuous cardiac monitoring, SaO2, I&O, hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation, CPAP, oxygen therapy, breath sound assessment and vital sign monitoring. Telemetry Step-Down Unit: NMMC has a 15-bed critical care telemetry step-down unit. The unit’s focus is the progressive treatment of the medical/surgical patient who requires a lesser level of care than is provided in the intensive care unit, but a greater level of care than that which is normally provided on a typical medical/surgical floor. Primary disciplines include cardiac, pulmonary and neurology patients. Some aspects of care include continuous cardiac monitoring, Sa02, I&O, mechanical ventilation, CPAP, oxygen therapy, breath sound assessment and vital sign monitoring.
Members of the Emergency Services Department’s nursing team work in a fast-paced and varied environment, with cases ranging from severe trauma and cardiac emergencies to sore throats and ear infections. Emergency nurses and flight nurses at NMMC may be required to have certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Trauma Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Neonatal Advanced Life Support and Emergency Nursing, depending on the role of the nurse. Aeromedical Service: Within two to five minutes of receiving a dispatch call, the helicopter flight team, equipped with comprehensive lifesaving equipment and a sophisticated communications system, heads toward any designated point within our response area. To become a flight nurse, you must have prior experience in trauma/critical care nursing and should be certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Basic Trauma Life Support and Emergency Nursing.
Cardiac rehabilitation nurses plan and implement exercise prescriptions as well as perform health and risk factor assessments. In addition, you will supervise and instruct exercise therapy classes and provide patient education. Nurses in the echocardiography lab assist physicians in the administration of stress testing and transesophageal echocardiograms and are responsible for performing adult and pediatric echocardiography procedures. Registered nurses employed in nuclear cardiology assist with nuclear stress testing and tilt table studies. The Heart Institute has a high volume in cardiac catheterization, interventional and electrophysiology procedures. As a cath lab nurse, you will provide technical expertise in all facets of the cath lab. Observation RNs provide pre-op and post-op care for cath lab patients.
Home Care/Hospice
Because
treatments vary from patient to patient, your role as a home
health nurse will enable you to draw from a diversity of skills.
However, in preparation for managed care, the home health
registered nurse builds general knowledge and becomes
specialized in one or two areas of interest. Duties range from
short-term observation and monitoring, surgery follow-up
procedures and management of cases involving high-tech
procedures, such as IV therapy and blood transfusions, as well
as educating patients and family about their disease process. Hospice:
If you choose hospice nursing, your role will involve pain
management for the terminally ill who desire to remain at home
during the final stages of the illness. These patients and their
families will need significant emotional support as well as
management of their medical diagnoses.
Nurse Link® registered nurses use the nursing process as a framework to determine needs and provide health care through telecommunication encounters with patients. This free community service of health information and triage of symptom based calls offers daily assistance to callers from 7 a.m. to midnight. By utilizing physician developed protocols, Nurse Link® nurses direct patients to the appropriate level of care. In
addition, nurses provide after hours’ call for 13 physician
offices and NMMC’s Home Health Agency. Nurses also call in
prescriptions using approved customized protocols for physicians
who have contracted this service. Nurse Link® provides
assistance in a medical emergency and provides emergency interim
care as appropriate. Nurses must have a current Mississippi
license and a minimum of two years acute nursing experience.
Oncology As a nurse on NMMC’s oncology unit, you will become skilled in chemotherapy administration, care of the immunocompromised patient, pain control, maintenance of various access devices and the holistic, supportive care of the terminally ill patient and family. The unit also houses an outpatient bay specializing in pheresis procedures.
Pain
Management Center
The goal of the Pain Management Center is to decrease pain and make patients more
functional using multi-modalities including nerve blocks and medications. The PMC works
in close relations with psychiatry, neurology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and rehab medicine
& services and treats patients from a wide variety of illnesses and disease states including
chronic pain, acute pain, and cancer pain.
Pediatrics
Rehabilitation As
a nurse at NMMC’s Rehabilitation Institute, you will monitor
your patients’ acute or chronic medical problems. You will
also prepare your patients and their family members for managing
the medical aspects of the individual’s disability after the
patient returns home. As a part of the rehabilitation team, you will work with doctors and various therapists to help individual patients regain their highest possible levels of functioning.
Perioperative nursing consists of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care. As a nurse in any of these areas, you will be challenged to utilize and expand your nursing skills to care for patients ranging in age from newborn to geriatric. Each nurse plays an important role, whether assessing the patient for surgery, circulating, scrubbing or monitoring a patient after anesthesia. Orientation will provide the opportunity to learn the skills needed to be competent in a demanding, yet rewarding, care environment. Click here for information on NMMC's Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist training program.
The role of the surgical nurse requires utilization of diverse clinical skills and provides quality learning experiences designed to enhance your professional growth and development.
Women’s and Infant’s Health
Obstetrics
and Gynecology: The Women’s Hospital uses a concept of
family-centered care after delivery. As an Ob/Gyn nurse, you
will not only care for new mothers’ needs but you will also
work with specially trained educators in instructing mothers and
fathers in caring for their new babies. The Ob/Gyn nurse also
assists with diagnostic procedures, treatments and
post-operative care of gynecological surgery patients, as well
as caring for patients’ medical needs during their visit.
Working
as a labor and delivery staff nurse will enable you to develop
specialized technical skills in fetal monitoring, assessment of
intrapartum progress, assessment and treatment of high-risk
patients, surgical skills for Cesarean sections and other
emergency gynecological procedures, in addition to recovery of
the anesthetized patient and immediate care of the newborn. Nursery: The Well-Baby Nursery provides care to term and low-risk newborns and has a capacity for 24 patients. The patient care team consists of pediatricians, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nursing assistants and unit secretaries.
Care of the
well newborn is directed toward supporting transition to
extrauterine life, observing for alteration in the physiologic
functions of the newborn, facilitating newborn/family
relationships and instructing family members in care of the
newborn.
Education/Women’s
Lactation Center: Nurse educators provide a series of childbirth
education classes throughout the year. Specially trained
lactation consultants help mothers better understand the
benefits of breast-feeding and teach feeding techniques and
coping skills. |
Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit: The Level II NICU consists of 11 intensive
care beds and 11 intermediate care beds. The patient care team
consists of neonatologists, registered nurses, respiratory
therapists and unit secretaries. Also involved in the
multidisciplinary approach to patient care are personnel from
social work, pharmacy, pathology, radiology,
physical/occupational therapy, dietary and pastoral care. The
NICU serves premature infants and sick term newborns. Patient
needs include respiratory support; administration of IV fluids,
hyperal, antibiotics and other medications and blood products;
continuous monitoring of ECG, respirations, SpO2 and blood
pressure; and maintenance of neutral thermal environment.
Registered nurses and respiratory therapists working in the NICU
may also serve on the neonatal transport team. The intermediate
nursery houses growing premature infants and term newborns who
are nearing discharge from the hospital.