Clinical Nurse, NICU

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• Clinical Practice:
  Follows the nursing process to deliver safe, compassionate, and culturally effective care.
• Assessment and Planning:
  Gathers and synthesizes assessment data to determine the patient/family plan of care, shares pertinent data with the care team, and delegates tasks.
• Deterioration Monitoring:
  Recognizes and/or seeks resources to recognize clinical changes that are indicative of patient deterioration; utilizes the CAT team when appropriate.
• Collaboration:
  
  Collaborates with the patient, family, and multidisciplinary team to coordinate all facets of patient care.
• Plan of Care Development:
  Develops, implements, and/or revises the patient’s plan of care on admission and during the course of the hospitalization; plans are outcomes focused and include goals and required interventions.
• Continuity of Care:
  Care is coordinated across the continuum; understands and utilizes case management resources.
• Evidence‑Based Practice:
  Consistently follows evidence based practice bundles and nursing standards/procedures to provide nursing care that eliminates preventable events of patient harm and promotes excellent patient outcomes.
• Ethical Dilemmas:
  Recognizes and addresses situations which present ethical dilemmas and/or moral distress; takes steps to actively address the situation.
• Education:
  
  Demonstrates competence in teaching patients/families and progresses to an expert educator of patients/families.
• Documentation:
  Evaluates and documents the care provided on each assigned shift; documents the evaluation of nursing interventions and outcomes of nursing care utilizing hospital standards, policies and procedures.
• Rapid Practice Adoption:
  Accountable for the rapid adoption and implementation of clinical practice changes into own practice.
• Communication:
  Consistently follows safe hand‑off practices; utilizes and exemplifies safety behaviors for error prevention; identifies potential safety concerns and communicates with unit leadership as appropriate.
• Teamwork:
  Demonstrates effective teamwork as a member of the interdisciplinary care team, fostering and exemplifying a culture of respect.
• Interdisciplinary Rounds:
  Actively participates in interdisciplinary patient care rounds and/or meetings; makes recommendations to the plan of care that reflect nursing goals, interventions, and expected outcomes.
• Evidence‑Based Practice Integration:
  Incorporates evidence based practice into direct clinical care in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Professional Development:
  Models appearance and behaviors that promote a positive image of professional nursing; expands clinical judgment and critical thinking skills with increased experience; demonstrates mastery of the principles of Family Centered Care, including dignity and respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration.
• Fiscal Stewardship:
  Manages own time to accomplish direct/indirect care in a cost‑effective manner; conserves unit and organizational resources; understands the implications of the cost of staffing decisions; identifies observed opportunities for cost savings.
• Informatics:
  Demonstrates healthcare informatics competency to manage patient care, outcome data, and current and emerging healthcare technology; understands nursing sensitive outcomes and knows how to navigate the nursing scorecard; participates and/or leads improvement initiatives to improve outcomes.
• Learning:
  Identifies own learning needs and actively assures learning needs are met; seeks out opportunities to meet needs and attends all required programs; maintains CEU’s for nursing licensure; maintains compliance with mandatory education and annual nursing competencies.
• Change Management:
  Recognizes individual preferences regarding an environment of constant change and understands change management; develops effective methods to…