RN - System Resource Pool - Tier IV - ICU and ED

Overview

Tiered Model Overview

Pro Medica is implementing a new tiered-model structure for full-time, part-time, and per-diem nurses. The new resource pool model provides Pro Medica’s nurses more flexible work options, encourages staff development, enhances patient care, and addresses unfulfilled staffing needs within the hospitals.

The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the nursing care provided to a group of patients. This nurse leads the nursing team members in the care as directed by the attending physician and in collaboration with other health care providers in accordance with the philosophy and policies of Pro Medica Acute Care Hospitals. Actively participates in the creation of an environment that fosters patient, family, physician and employee satisfaction.

Ensures decisions made are based on patient and family centered care philosophy utilizing evidenced based practices, and focused on safety, customer satisfaction, and quality outcomes.

The Registered Nurse provides nursing care to individuals and groups which require specialized knowledge, judgment, and skill derived from the principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social, spiritual/cultural, and nursing sciences. The Registered Nurse functions within the full scope of nursing practice as noted by the Board of Nursing of their designated state for which they are practicing in addition to compliance with any of the hospitals accrediting bodies.

• Patient & Family Centered Care — Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preference, values, and needs. Elicit and communicate patient values, preferences, and expressed needs. Provide patient-centered care with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
  
  Engage patients or designated surrogates in active partnerships that promote health, safety and well-being, and self-care management. Addresses patient/family education needs considering patient level of comprehension, style of learning from the point of entry through discharge. Navigates and collaborates with patient, family and healthcare team regarding the care provided and needed to ensure appropriate transition along the continuum. Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Evidenced Based Practice — Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Base individualized care plan on patient values, clinical expertise, and evidence.
• Nursing Practice — Assesses, formulates nursing diagnosis, plans, and implements and continually evaluates effectiveness of the individualized written nursing care plan and delivery of nursing care for each patient assigned. Analyzes and prioritizes problems and makes sound judgments based on logic and/or critical thinking skills.
• Safety and Quality Improvement — Improve the safety and quality of healthcare systems by minimizing the risk of harm to patients and the healthcare team. Administers medications and executes regimens as authorized by the state licensure. Incorporates quality measures and data to understand individual and system performance. Applies use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality. Identifies strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
  
  Participates in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice projects or research. Promotes and incorporates error prevention techniques. Report safety concerns and events including near misses.
• Informatics & Technology — Promote and incorporate use of technology to communicate, manage information, mitigate errors, and support decision making. Navigates, plans patient care, and documents ongoing status, interventions, patient responses and outcomes in accurate, timely manner in the electronic health record. Responds appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts. Advocates protecting the integrity of the healthcare…