Registered Nurse - Circulator

Registered Nurse - Circulator

Full time, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, 80 hours per pay period. Call 1 day during the week and every 5th or 6th weekend.

The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the nursing care provided to a group of patients. This nurse leads the nursing team members in the care as directed by the attending physician and in collaboration with other health care providers in accordance with the philosophy and policies of Insight Acute Care Hospitals. Actively participates in the creation of an environment that fosters patient, family, physician, and employee satisfaction.

Ensures decisions made are based on patient and family centered care philosophy utilizing evidence‑based practices, and focused on safety, customer satisfaction, and quality outcomes.

The Registered Nurse provides nursing care to individuals and groups which require specialized knowledge, judgment, and skill derived from the principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social, spiritual/cultural, and nursing sciences. The Registered Nurse functions within the full scope of nursing practice as noted by the Board of Nursing of their designated state for which they are practicing in addition to compliance with any of the hospital's accrediting bodies.

• Patient & Family Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preference, values, and needs.
• Elicit and communicate patient values, preferences, and expressed needs.
• Provide patient-centered care with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Engage patients or designated surrogates in active partnerships that promote health, safety and well‑being, and self‑care management.
• Address patient/family education needs considering patient level of comprehension, style of learning from the point of entry through discharge.
• Navigate and collaborate with patient, family and healthcare team regarding the care provided and needed to ensure appropriate transition along the continuum.
• Evaluate patient’s response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Evidenced-Based Practice:
  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Base individualized care plan on patient values, clinical expertise, and evidence.
• Nursing Practice:
  Assess, formulate nursing diagnosis, plan, and implement and continually evaluate effectiveness of the individualized written nursing care plan and delivery of nursing care for each patient assigned.
• Analyze and prioritize problems and make sound judgments based on logic and/or critical thinking skills.
• Safety and Quality Improvement:
  Improve safety and quality of healthcare systems by minimizing the risk of harm to patients and the healthcare team.
• Administer medications and execute regimens as authorized by state licensure.
• Incorporate quality measures and data to understand individual and system performance.
• Apply technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.
• Identify strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
• Participate in unit‑based quality improvement, evidence-based practice projects or research.
• Promote and incorporate error prevention techniques.
• Report safety concerns and events including near misses.
• Informatics & Technology:
  Promote and incorporate use of technology to communicate, manage information, mitigate errors and support decision making.
• Navigate, plan patient care, and document ongoing status, interventions, patient responses and outcomes in accurate, timely manner in the electronic health record.
• Respond appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts.
• Advocate protecting the integrity of the healthcare record and the privacy of each patient.
• Communication, Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Interact effectively with patient, families and with healthcare team to foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making.
• Function as the coordinator of patient’s plan of…