Registered Nurse; RN - Acute Care

Hiring for committed experienced RN’s for multiple acute care units at Wellstar Paulding. Sign on Bonus eligible and strong benefits including enhanced 403B and Medical. Magnet Designated /Baldrige Award winning Paulding campus - commitment to excellence with care and compassion.

• Perform 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 ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.
• Provide relationship-based patient centred 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 partner 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 patient’s goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practice using current clinical practice standards.
• Coordinate 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.
• Demonstrate teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
• Participate and support performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care including initiating and/or leading such activities as well as promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively supports/participates in shared governance at all levels in the system.
• Complete all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education.
• Serve as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce, modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment.
• Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing. Participate in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products.
• Uphold all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards ensuring by way of example, such goals as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems’ safety absolutes.
• Participate in data collection, pose relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence-based practice. Consult appropriate experts and use appropriate resources and evidence to address practice questions.
• Proactively plan for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care.
• Participate in the development of protocols and procedures when called upon or through self-initiation in collaboration with care managers and other members of the health care team to achieve best practice outcomes.
• Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing or Graduate of accredited/approved school of nursing.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.

• Registered Nurse (Single State) 1.00 upon hire.
• RN
  - Multi-state Compact 1.00 upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) 2.00 required.
• BLS
  - Instructor 2.00 required.

• Less than 1 year completion of accredited/approved school of nursing with requisition clinical hours.
• Direct patient care experience preferred.

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