Registered Nurse RN - Heart Failure Unit - Part Time

About the Role

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.

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
• At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit.

• BSN preferred.
• Preferred experience in specialty areas.
• Preferred licensure or certifications.

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
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.

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
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. Demonstrates the ability to communicate 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, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice.

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice. Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice. Ensures improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning. Serves as a resource for students.

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
Demonstrates an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy…