Clinical Nurse Attending PICU Evenings

Position Details

Department: PCH-MAIN | Nursing Operations

Location: Phoenix

Shift: Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun, (Days Vary), Evenings, 3pm-1am

Category: Nursing

Posting #: 980239

Employee Type: Full-Time

Posting

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Seeking an experienced clinical critical care RN leader with at least 5 years of direct bedside experience. This is a leadership role focused on clinical expertise in the PICU specialty, mentoring, and quality improvement. While the Clinical Nurse Attending does not have formal direct reports, they provide leadership through subject matter expertise, collaboration, and by influencing practice at the bedside.

The role empowers nurses, supports growth, and drives improvements in quality and patient outcomes. The incumbent will support our bedside nurses on our specialty PICU unit. This is an evening shift, Monday-Friday 3pm-1am (4/10’s). Must have BSN or graduate level degree. Must have a national certification or be open to attaining one within 6 months. Examples include CCRN:
Certified Critical Care Nurse, CEN:
Certified Emergency Nurse, or CPN:
Certified Pediatric Nurse. The incumbent will need to have a strong leadership and clinical skill set in the critical care specialties, change agent mentality, and passion for quality and safety. Strong clinical experience along with education, collaboration and quality and safety work is required. If your passion is quality care and outcomes, mentoring, and making a difference with improving evidence based practices, while helping nurses grow and improve patient care then this is the job for you!

Must be open to working 4/10’s. Full time/Exempt.

The Clinical Nurse Attending is a leadership position focused on the clinical management of patients. The Clinical Nurse Attending prepares highly skilled nurses focused on improving quality and safety outcomes for patients or patient populations. The Clinical Nurse Attending assumes accountability for patient‑care outcomes through the translation of evidence‑based information to design, implement, and evaluate patient‑care processes and models of care delivery.

• Clinical Expertise
• Facilitates nursing interventions based on risk anticipation and other evidence to improve healthcare outcomes.
• Assists with change initiatives to decrease or eliminate discrepancies between actual practices and identified standards of care.
• Assesses actual and anticipated health risk discrepancies in the individualized plan of care.
• Utilizes best available evidence to facilitate practice change that results in improving quality, safety and fiscally responsible outcomes.
• Utilizes performance tools (e.g., health care dashboards, reports, etc.) to access patient statistics in real‑time and apply evidence‑based interventions to improve patient care and promote positive outcomes.
• Coaches, delegates, and supports healthcare team members in the performance of nursing procedures and processes with a focus on safety and competence.
• Mentors and coaches new and experienced nurses and other members of the healthcare team.
• Quality Improvement and Safety
• Evaluates patient handoffs and transitions of care to improve outcomes.
• Communicates to the interprofessional healthcare team, patients, and caregivers current quality and safety guidelines and nurse sensitive indicators (HAI bundles, safety elements, etc.).
• Functions as part of an interprofessional team by communicating, planning, and implementing care directly with other healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, social workers, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners.
• Promotes a culture of safety using high reliability principles.
• Information Technology and Data
• Collects and utilizes data to generate evidence for nursing practice.
• Provides input in the design of data and data resources that generate meaningful evidence for clinical practice.
• Interprets patterns and trends in data to evaluate outcomes of care and compare to other recognized benchmarks.
• Uses performance measures and information technology to assess and improve the delivery of evidence‑based practices.
• Organizational and Systems Leadership
• Collaborates within the healthcare team to focus…