RN - PACU

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary Location Location B Department PACU Shift Night (United States of America)

Schedule Full time Weekly Hours 36 FTE 0.9

• Clinical judgment when performing caring practices
  - Synthesizes and interprets multiple sources of data; uses past experiences to anticipate problems; seeks interprofessional collaboration; recognizes and responds to complex situations.
• Leads efforts to improve documentation of the plan of care, care delivered, and outcomes of care.
• Has innate awareness of the patient and family's current and future needs, and fully engages them in the plan of care.
• Collaborates with family, other health care providers and community resources to develop comprehensive plans of care.
• Caring practices follow the patient's and family's lead; orchestrates processes to ensure patient/family's comfort and concerns are addressed.
• Promotes a healing environment for all health outcomes, including death.
• Expertly integrates age specific concepts into patient care, considers both the patient's chronological age and developmental level.
• Using self-management strategies, develops care goals and actions in partnerships with patients and families.
• Creatively modifies or develops patient and family education programs.
• Integrates patient/family education throughout delivery of care; evaluates effectiveness using teach back methods and by observing behavioral changes related to learning.
• Integrates strategies in the plan of care that support the patient's and family's transition to home.
• Uses systems thinking
  - Knows when and how to negotiate and navigate through the system on behalf of patients and families through care coordination.
• Intervenes and leads others to change systems and processes as appropriate to support optimal patient outcomes.
• Sustains an extensive understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
• Works with managers to lead efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
• Monitors and assists others to comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensures individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
• Is well-informed of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and assertively communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
• Effectively coordinates team care delivery while in the role of charge nurse; anticipating planning for and mitigating unexpected circumstances.
• Interprofessional Practice
  - Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
• Compliance
  - Patient Services Staff
  - Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
• Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
• Be mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
• Work with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify and share safety best practices.
• Be mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicate safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
• Exhibits advocacy, moral agency and response to inclusion
  - Works on behalf of patient, family, and community; advocates from patient/family perspective, whether similar to or different from personal values; suspends rules - patient and family drive moral decision-making; empowers the patient and family to speak for/represent themselves; achieves mutuality within patient/professional relationships.
• Uses inclusive resources available both internally and in the community to enhance the experience of care for the various patient populations.
• Appreciates and incorporates differences, including alternative therapies into care; tailors care to the extent possible.
• Demonstrates efforts to grow self and others in cultural competence.
• Collaborates with team using shared decision making
  - Invites inclusive resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
• Interacts confidently by promoting and expecting collaborative behavior in others.
• Mentors others to respect the contribution of the entire team.
• Is able to lead others to work collaboratively valuing the contributions of the various disciplines in patient/practice issues.
• Demonstrates leadership in the shared governance structure at the cluster or divisional level councils, committees, task forces or projects.
• Serves as chair for councils, committees, task forces or project work.
• Clinical inquiry & performance review to improve practice
  - Improves, deviates from, or individualizes standards and guidelines for particular patient situations or populations; questions and/or evaluates current practice based on patients' responses, review of the literature, research and education/learning; acquires knowledge and skills needed to…