Registered Nurse; RN - Acute Care Float

Job Description

Full-time – Days (7am-7pm).

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence‑based practice, using analytical and critical thinking.
• Ensures that care is individualized, coordinating care through effective partnerships and 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) 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 appropriate methods for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report, interdisciplinary rounds, just‑in‑time and planned patient teaching) and keeps the patient and significant others updated, making the patient’s goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practices using current clinical practice standards.
• Handles teamwork and collaboration by coordinating the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care that promotes a professional care delivery model.
• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care that promotes a professional care delivery model, including interdisciplinary communication methods and timely documentation, while fostering a respectful, inclusive clinical environment.
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a fiscally responsible manner that promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
• Participates and supports performance improvement, inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care, including initiating and/or leading such activities and supporting or participating in shared governance at all levels in the system.
• Professional development and initiative: completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, and population‑specific education.
• 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.
• Evidence‑based practice and research: promotes evidence‑based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing, participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision‑making process, and evaluates patient care products.
• Upholds 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 such as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Well Star Health Systems safety absolutes.
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence‑based practice, consults appropriate experts and uses appropriate resources to address practice questions.
• Resources and support: proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum while 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 (e.g., decreasing re‑admission rates, avoidable days, adverse events).
• Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources.

• Required Minimum Education:
  
  Graduate of an accredited/approved school of nursing;
  Bachelor’s Degree (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing.
• Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):
  Registered Nurse (Single State), RN – Multi‑state Compact, Basic Life Support (BLS); BLS – Instructor; BLS – Provisional.
• Required Skills:
  • Knowledge of professional nursing theory, regulations and practices to give and evaluate patient care.
  • Knowledge of clinic policies and procedures.
  • Skill in appropriate assessment, examination, and treatment techniques.
  • Skill…