Registered Nurse RN - Neuro IMCU - PT Nights

Job Category

Nursing - Registered Nurse

12 Hr Evening - Morning

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

Neuro IMC is a 13-bed Intermediate Care nursing unit. Neuro IMC serves as a dedicated stroke nursing unit. As a Neuro IMC unit, care is rendered to a variety of intermediate care neuro patients including but not limited to:

• High acuity ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke patients
• Patients receiving IV thrombolytic for acute ischemic stroke
• Patients requiring continuous EEG monitoring
• Patients with other neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barre' Syndrome, Myasthenia Gravis, and ALS
• Patients with hemodynamic instability needing antiarrhythmic and/or vasopressor medications

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.

• 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 Licensure or other certifications: BSN
• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
• Preferred Experience:
• Other:

• 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 or 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

• Transformational Leadership
• 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:
  Comfort, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice
• New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
• 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…