RN - CVOR, Jefferson

General Overview

The registered nurse provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting by striving to create and participate in the future of healthcare.

• Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN or support staff. Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role.
• Maintains a safe environment, considers patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and fosters a work environment that promotes positive attitudes, effective communications, trust, and collaboration.
• Encourages a culture where risk taking is safe and expected, supporting creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability.
• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives and ensures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Uses the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate and implement a patient care plan as prescribed by physician, nurse and hospital policy including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Analyzes health status of individuals and families and determines patient care needs against available norms where possible.
• Assesses patient reports/records for changes in condition, notifies physician/supervisor and intervenes appropriately with documentation.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than the primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Engages in formal and independent learning using current research and evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills.
• Participates in systematic peer review and seeks informal feedback from patients, peers and colleagues, identifying areas of strength and opportunities for development.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Places the patient at the center of all actions by evaluating and assessing patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
• Promotes compassionate, patient- and family-centered communication.
• Assesses and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Uses effective time management to complete assigned duties within the work shift.

Allegheny Health Network

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families for whom the nurse is responsible. The Registered Nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.

• The registered nurse provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting by striving to create and participate in the future of healthcare.
• Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN or support staff. Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role.
• Maintains a safe environment, considers patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and fosters a work environment that promotes positive attitudes, effective communications, trust, and collaboration.
• Encourages a culture where risk taking is safe and expected, with creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability as key.
• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives and assures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs and hospital policy, including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Analyzes health status of individuals and families and determines patient care needs.
• Assesses patient reports/records for changes in condition, notifies physician and/or…