Senior Nurse-Charge RN-Ortho Trauma Unit Job Des Moines area,Iowa USA,Nursing

Employment Type:

Full time Shift: 12 Hour Night Shift

Relocation and Sign On Bonus of up to $20,000!

0-1 years of experience: $10,000
1-3 years of experience: $15,000
3+ years of experience: $20,000

Position Purpose

The licensed Registered Nurse (RN) plans & provides professional nursing services & standards of practice in accordance with level of experience & education, state board of nursing & established policies & procedures. The RN integrates the art, science, leadership & knowledge of the nursing clinical practice through relationship-centered, compassionate, ethical & respectful direct / indirect healthcare services.

Functional Role RN III – senior:

Practice is guided by nursing process & policy / procedure / standards. Maintains focused area of expertise for care / program & / or provides interventions or knowledge within niche areas of care / program;
Advances professional / shared governance, collaborates inter & intra-professionally, delegates to others to advance care, assumes an expanded role & increased responsibility;
Able to lead a small team;
Serve as a unit / service / program nursing practice mentor & identify learning need of others.

Essential Functions

1. Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health and Mercy One Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.

2. Our Trinity Health Culture:
Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions & Promise in behaviors, practices & decisions.

3. Professional Nursing Practice:
Acts independently & appropriately within license, scope of knowledge & experience in practice area. Supports safety by adhering to standards & acting as a champion role model. Accountable for personal learning & development by participating in knowledge, skill & competency enhancing activities.

4. Professional Nursing Process:
Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates (document, teach, coordinate, advocate) standard elements of professional practice:
Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification / Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate (ANA);
Participates in the development of clinical standards that are collaborative, collegial & supported by current & relevant evidence-based practices, science, trends & data (clinical & administrative) & patient care (AONL).

5. Professional Leadership Practice:
Inspires team to embrace the organization’s Mission, Values & Vision;
Cultivates excellence by supporting growth & development of team;
Advocates for continuous development with focus on mentoring & succession planning;
Engages & fosters transpersonal teaching & learning in the context of the caring relationship;
Embraces & encourages humanistic-altruistic values & behaviors;
Advances nurses & others in the provision of quality-focused, patient-centered & relationship-based healthcare;
Utilizes transformational leadership principles (Magnet);
Leads team effectively through change, recognizing reach beyond nursing to include broader healthcare implications;
Embraces ideas & cultural differences while managing complex or competing priorities;
Enhances a culturally proficient work team through respect, dialogue & inclusion.

6. Professional Leadership Process:
Provides leadership & retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions & outcomes;
Collaborates with key stakeholders & contributes to quality & improvement practices;
Empowers staff to creatively problem-solve through the caring process (Caritas);
Enhances an environment that prioritizes patient & colleague safety utilizing established & evidence-based practices, tools, methodologies;
Drives effective patient, process, performance & stewardship / financial outcomes as measured by established metrics & trended…