Registered Nurse RN - Labor & Delivery L&D - Float Pool - Nights

Job Category:
Nursing - Registered Nurse
Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

The Women & Children Resource Pool consists of 3 subset teams known as “Pods” (Labor & Delivery Pod, NICU Pod, and Mother Baby/Pediatric/Step Down NICU Pod). The team works within the Women & Children service areas of Northeast Georgia Healthcare System and will report to our Gainesville, Braselton, and/or Demorest (Habersham) locations. Each “pod” is specialized according to patient population and requires 2 years of RN experience specific to specialty of the pod.

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. 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships.
• Demonstrates deep interdependence by valuing team member contributions, talents, and skills.
• Models safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship.
• Supports unit‑based shared governance activities while on duty and actively participates in unit‑based self‑care activities.
• Continuously evaluates work processes with the goal of improvement, to achieve strategic initiatives.
• Supports in quality of care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, and supports unit‑based activities aimed at improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on…