Registered Nurse RN - GI​/Renal - PT Nights

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

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.

The GI/Renal Unit is a 25‑bed nursing unit with four rooms designed for semi‑private occupancy. It is a medical/surgical unit designated to care for patients with renal and gastroenterological illnesses, as well as other general medical patients in times of high census. As the designated renal medical unit, their specialty is caring for patients that require Peritoneal Dialysis and is the preferred unit for these patients to be placed if clinically appropriate.

Care is provided for a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms, including but not limited to:

• End Stage Renal Disease requiring Hemodialysis
• End Stage Renal Disease requiring Peritoneal Dialysis
• Rhabdomyolysis, Acute kidney injury, Acute renal failure
• Hematuria requiring Continuous Bladder Irrigation
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Crohn's Disease
• Liver cirrhosis
• Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
• Abdominal pain (non‑surgical), N/V/D, Gastritis
• Cholecystitis
• Other medical patients in times of high census

Patients and patient family members receive physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial care.

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia

• Educational Requirements: Associate’s Degree

• Minimum Experience:

• Other: 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 for 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

• Clinical Skills and Knowledge: Demonstrates basic assessment skills. Demonstrates the 5 rights of medication administration. Manages care for basic patient assignment and progresses to care for increasingly complex patients. Accurately documents all aspects of the nursing process using the electronic medical record as applicable. Understands and complies with all DNV…