Clinical Nurse II, Neonatal Float Team

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford Clinical Nurse II

At Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centered care. It's why we provide our caregivers with continuing education and state-of-the-art facilities, like the newly remodeled Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. And it's why we need caring, committed people on our team - like you.

Join us on our mission to heal humanity, one child and family at a time.

This position floats to the following three units:
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Intermediate Care Nursery and Lucile Packard Special Care Nursery The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a 40-bed Level IV nursery specializing in care for newborns, which includes the tiniest premature babies and critically ill neonatal infants with a variety of diagnoses and conditions, such as congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, metabolic disorders, and other congenital defects.

Some of the interventions we do include ECMO, CVVH, Peritoneal Dialysis and Therapeutic Hypothermia. The Intermediate Care Nursery (ICN) is a 34-bed level II Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery designed to provide care to recovering newborns and those infants requiring level II care. The Lucile Packard Special Care Nursery is a 6-bed, Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located within Sequoia Hospital.

The team includes Stanford University doctors and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford nurses. In addition to providing care to the SCN babies our team serves Sequoia Hospital with newborn nursery care and delivery attendance.

JOB SUMMARY

This paragraph summarizes the general nature, level and purpose of the job. The Clinical Nurse II is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Clinical Nurse II possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Clinical Nurse II job description and exhibits organizational core values which reflect its mission.

The Clinical Nurse II independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the adult. The Clinical Nurse II demonstrates within the competency domains of Patient and Family Centered Care, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Safety, Continuous Quality Improvement, Teamwork, Technology/Informatics, Professionalism, and Leadership.

The Clinical Nurse II works closely with the inter-professional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age appropriate considerations of assigned patients. The Clinical Nurse II seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice.

The nurse demonstrates how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals and the care delivery system. The nurse complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.

Essential Functions

• Performs all the functions of Clinical Nurse I
• PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE:
  Recognizes the patient (or the patient's designee) as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
• Manages more complex patient care assignments appropriate to skill level
• Participates in building consensus and resolving conflict in the context of patient care
• Demonstrates the ability to see the "big picture"
• Uses clinical experience and historical patient responses as a way to develop and refine practice
• Is able to speak to the patient about advanced care planning, values and end- of- life care before the need for an acute decision arises
• Evaluates and considers the implementation of alternative approaches to establishing a healing environment
• Engages in problem solving to address complex issues regarding the delivery of safer, high-quality, patient-and family- centered care
• Ensures the systems within the area of practice support patient- centered care.
• EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE AND RESEARCH:
  Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Utilizes the EBP process: generates clinical questions, searches and evaluates the quality of evidence, considers expert clinical knowledge and patient preferences and values, and applies it to practice
• Questions current practice and develops a sense of clinical inquiry
• Recognizes and…