Registered Nurse RN – Emergency Department – Nights

Position: Registered Nurse RN – Emergency Department – FT Nights

Job Category:
Nursing – Registered Nurse

Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Evening – Morning

About the Role

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.
Job Summary Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.

Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.

Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications:
  Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Educational Requirements:
  
  Associate’s Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
• Minimum Experience:
  
  At least 1 year of RN experience — Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN.
• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
  
  (none listed).
• Preferred Experience:
  
  (none listed).
• Job Specific and Unique Knowledge,
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  (see below).

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines.
• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect for others and fosters customer service.
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice.
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit.

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities Transformational Leadership

• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility.
• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
• Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization.

Exemplary Professional Practice

• Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
• Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area.
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care.
• Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools.
• Incorporates Sister Simone Roach’s 7 Cs of Caring:
  Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Composure, Creativity into daily work and practice.

New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement

• Creates an environment of open dialogue,…