Extended Team - Acute Care RN, 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.

Work Shift Night (United States of America)

Previous Travel experience strongly preferred.

A 13 week contract is required during surge season (Oct-March) BEFORE a candidate can be considered for PRN shifts during non-peak months.

Program Commitment:

Team Members are required to complete: 1 (one) 13-week assignment between Oct 1st – March 31st (surge season) each year, with the option to work additional 8-13 week contracts in between.

Team Members will be scheduled 36 hours/week.

Team Members function under a contingency staffing model as a PRN Team Member (since only held to 1 contract per year), with no guaranteed hours, and no benefits offered.

All scheduling is done at the unit level, with no self scheduling.

Team Members are required to work 3 (three) Mondays and/or Fridays, and 3 (three) Saturdays and/or Sundays in a 4-week scheduling period.

Shift: Nights 7p-7a

The Extended Assignment Team RN Clinical Nurse
- Acute Care is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed care givers who ensure that patients, families, and significant others receive individualized high quality, safe patient care. They practice in a clinical environment that is administered by Nurse Managers and other leaders and is supported through the Well Star Shared Governance Model. The framework for practice is steered by the Well Star Professional Practice Model, 5-Star Nursing and evidence-based practice and research.

RN competencies are derived from these models and supported by the Well Star Core Competencies.

It is expected that all RN Clinical Nurses are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected that the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

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 base practice, uses
• analytical/critical thinking and insuring that care is individualized; coordinating 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, etc.) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an
• understanding of cultural diversity
• Always partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using such appropriate method
• 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 patients goals the
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• 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. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary
• communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc.); 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 the recruitment and retention of all…