Registered Nurse; RN – Progressive Care Unit; PCU – St. Joseph Warren Hospital-Weekend

Overview

Registered Nurse (RN) – Progressive Care (Step down) – St. Joseph Warren Hospital. The Stepdown RN delivers patient care using the nursing process, including data collection, assessment, prioritization of patient problems/needs, and evaluation of nursing care outcomes, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team. The RN coordinates, provides, and directs patient teaching and coordinates care provided by health team members.

• Conducts initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyzes assessment data, creates a plan of care, implements treatment, and evaluates treatment effectiveness.
• Administers medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures.
• Serves as point of contact for patients  care coordination throughout hospital departments.
• Acts as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department.
• Serves as patient advocate in collaboration with spiritual care, palliative care, and ethics.
• Serves as a point of care with care coordination and family members or caregivers.
• Clinically manages patients with multi-system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma.
• Uses the AACN Synergy Model to restore, support, promote, rehabilitate, or palliate to maintain physiologic, psychologic, and psychosocial stability of patients across the lifespan.
• Synthesizes and prioritizes information to take immediate, decisive, evidence-based, patient-focused action using clinical judgement and clinical inquiry.
• Anticipates and responds to rapidly changing patient conditions; adapts as needed.
• Responds to the unique needs of patients and families coping with illness or injury and advocates for their quality of life choices.
• Practices in accordance with the core concepts and intention of the BSMH Nursing Professional Practice Model.

This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

• Current RN license in the state they are working or covered by compact (required)
• BLS Basic Life Support or ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred at hire; must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care; ACLS required within 6 months of hire)
• CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse (preferred)
• PCCN Progressive Care Certified Nurse (preferred)
• NIH Stroke Certification (preferred)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (preferred)

• 1 year of RN experience (required)
• 6 months RN experience in an acute care hospital setting (preferred)

• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred)
• Critical Care Course (preferred)

• Assigns patient care according to nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
• Orients, facilitates learning experiences, and provides education to nursing staff and others (based on quality improvement indicators and outcomes).
• Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and mission.
• Performs comprehensive assessment of patient s clinical condition and psychosocial needs of the patient and supportive resources.
• Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care.
• Applies the nursing process in patient care delivery.
• Assesses patient s physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and outcomes; revises plan of care accordingly.
• Assists patient and family in coping with illness.
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources.
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks assistance to perform safely.
• Advances personal and professional growth through participation in educational programs and current literature.
• Exhibits professionalism through accountability for own and delegated actions.
• Incorporates cost-effective measures and models stewardship of resources.
• Practices self-care and resilience in conflict and difficult circumstances.
• Protects the safety and privacy of all persons.
• Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies.
• Ability to communicate with patients in a manner they can understand, considering personal preferences.
• Compassionate, relationship-based approach to care; supports meaning in illness and suffering.
• Remains calm, adaptive, and composed during an emergency.
• Manages care of patients with chest tubes; assesses patients through hemodynamic monitoring.
• Inserts and monitors transvenous/temporary pacing; administers sedation as appropriate.
• Knowledge of advanced respiratory modalities.

• Periods of high stress and fluctuating…