Registered Nurse; RN - Home Health Facilities

Overview

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 is possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in healthcare and in people’s lives.

The RN Clinical Nurse works a night shift in the United States of America and is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers, ensuring that patients, families and significant others receive individualized high‑quality safe patient care.

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence‑based practice.
• Provides relationship‑based patient‑centered care consistent with population‑specific characteristics (e.g., age, gender, disease) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity.
• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model.
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care, including initiating or leading such activities and actively supporting/shared governance at all levels in the system.
• 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, modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment.
• Promotes evidence‑based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing, including participation 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, including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards, ensuring goals such as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems safety absolutes are met.
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence‑based practice and 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 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, supporting efficient and effective use of human and material resources.

• Associate’s degree in Nursing, Diploma (Nurse) or Bachelor’s degree in Nursing – Preferred.
• RN – Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN‑COMPACT – RN – Multi‑state Compact.
• Less than one year of completion of an accredited/approved school of nursing with requisite clinical hours.
• Direct patient care experience – required or preferred.

• Ability to read, write and speak English.
• Optimizes the use of technology to support clinical care and holds basic computer skills.
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative and customer service skills.
• Ability to function in a fast‑paced environment and respond to emergencies in a decisive, composed and respectful manner.
• Practices nursing using evidence and analytical skills along with strong critical‑thinking skills.