Registered Nurse; RN - Float Pool - Nights

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what s possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people s lives.

JOB SUMMARY:

A brief description of the job. The RN Clinical Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers who ensure that patients, families and significant others receive individualized high quality, safe care.

• Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
  • Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence-based practice; uses analytical/critical thinking and ensures that care is individualized; coordinates care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.
  • Provides relationship-based patient-centered care that is consistent with population-specific characteristics (e.g., age, gender, disease) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity.
  • Partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using appropriate methods for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report; interdisciplinary rounds; just-in-time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient and significant others updated and making the patient s goals the focus of the plan of care).
  • Practices using current clinical practice standards.
• Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model, including diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods; completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment.
  • Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
  • Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care; initiates or leads activities and supports a shared governance process at all levels.
• Professional Development and Initiative
  • Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, and population-specific education.
  • Serves as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure a current and future qualified workforce; models professional nursing practice and fosters a healthy work environment.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research
  • Promotes evidence-based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing. Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products.
  • Upholds all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies; adheres to legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards (e.g., safety goals).
  • Participates in data collection, poses clinical questions to advance evidence-based practice; consults appropriate experts and uses evidence to address practice questions.
• Resources and Support
  • Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care.
  • Participates in the development of protocols and procedures in collaboration with care managers and other health care team members to achieve best-practice outcomes (e.g., decrease readmission rates; avoidable days; adverse events).
  • Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources.

• Associates in Nursing or Bachelor s Degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing (preferred).