Registered Nurse RN - GI​/Renal - PRN - PRN plans

Registered Nurse RN - GI / Renal - PRN - Flexible PRN plans - Up to $52/hour

Job Category:
Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Morning - Evening

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. Is a professional member of VOICE professional nursing shared governance providing feedback on issues being addressed ticipates as a member on VOICE 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:
  
  Associates Degree
• Minimum Experience:
  
  One year of experience as a professional RN. New graduate RNs or those with less than one year of experience will be referred to the RN Residency Program.

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications:
  National certification in clinical specialty
• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
  
  Bachelor of Nursing Degree
• Preferred Experience:
  
  Long Term Care:
  One year experience
• Other:
  Membership in a professional organization

• 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 toward 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

• Demonstrates basic assessment skills, the 5 rights of medication administration, and manages care for basic patient assignment progressing to increasingly complex patients. Accurately documents all aspects of the nursing process using the electronic medical record. Understands and complies with all DNV standards, accesses and follows policies, evaluates patient response to interventions, adjusts plan of care, consistently coordinates interdisciplinary care, utilizes resources effectively, participates in PI processes, maintains work environment compliance with DNV regulations, coordinates discharge planning, and actively contributes to a culture of safety.
• Includes the patient and family in patient care, provides effective education appropriate to learning needs, demonstrates appropriate customer service behaviors, and participates in organizational and unit based customer service initiatives.
• Plans patient care based on assessment, displays basic prioritization and time management skills, evaluates patient’s response to interventions seeking support to adjust the plan of care, utilizes unit resources for unfamiliar populations, recognizes signs of deteriorating patient, accesses appropriate resources, reads nursing research/EBP articles, participates in discharge planning with increasing responsibility, recognizes nursing practice trends,…