Registered Nurse RN -PRN

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Registered Nurse

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

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.

• Must be licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia
• Must hold an Associate’s Degree
• Must have at least 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.

• National certification in a clinical specialty
• Bachelor of Nursing Degree
• One year experience in Long Term Care
• 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, self‑ and other‑leadership as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports the NGHS shared governance model.
• Must have basic computer skills necessary to operate the computer systems used on unit.

• Resumes and administers 5 rights of medication, manages care for basic patient assignments and progresses to care for 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 and adjusts the plan of care, consistently coordinates interdisciplinary care, uses resources effectively to reduce waste, participates in PI processes, participates in maintaining and monitoring the work environment for compliance with DNV regulations, coordinates discharge planning, contributes to a culture of safety.
• Includes patient and family in patient care, provides effective education appropriate for learning needs, demonstrates appropriate customer service behaviors, 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, seeks support to adjust the plan, utilizes resources to increase understanding of unfamiliar patient populations, recognizes signs of deteriorating patient and accesses appropriate resources, reads nursing research/EBP articles, participates in discharge planning with increasing responsibility, demonstrates ability to recognize and anticipate changes, recognizes nursing practice trends and questions care in relation…