Clinical Resource RN

As a Clinical Resource RN, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

The Resource Nurse supports high quality, patient-centered care by offering feedback, guidance, and mentoring to new graduate nurses and/or nurses that are transitioning to a new specialty. The Resource Nurse supports multiple units. The Resource Nurse provides guidance and education on the hospital’s standard of nursing practice, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all accrediting and regulatory agency requirements.

Major Responsibilities:
Quality
• Performs rounds on each nursing unit, continuously observing, assessing the quality of patient care, and identifying nursing educational needs. Escalates concerns about nursing skills, patient care, policies, processes, and equipment as appropriate.
• Utilizes skills of observation. Provides feedback on nursing assessments, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care.
• Provides feedback and mentoring on patient assessments and care planning.
• Provides assistance with performing or troubleshooting specific skills.
• Maintains IMobile phone for easy contact by new graduates or nurses within scope of support.
• Tracks requests to identify most commonly requested skills for purposes of enhancing orientation & education.
• Fosters teamwork and contributes to achievement of team goals.
• Attends rapid responses and codes as needed, to observe, provide feedback, and debrief, facilitate education, direction, coaching before, during and after the rapid response or code as indicated.
• Shares knowledge/expertise and assists co-workers. Service
• Serves as an example of professional nursing practice and promotes pride in nursing for the organization, the community, and the health care industry.
• Demonstrates caring and empathy in all interactions and advocates for patient- and family-centered approach in all decisions and actions.
• Promotes evidence-based best practices that enhance the patient experience, including SAFETY rounding, communication fundamentals/AIDET, Teach-Back, Narrating Care, etc.
• Ensures that nurses within scope of support have a clear understanding of how to integrate patient experience behaviors into quality, safety, and nursing practice.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills, including active listening. Ensures patients, physicians, and colleagues have a clear understanding of all communications, and escalates care concerns appropriately.
• Participates as an engaged, active member of the health care team and positively promotes the rest of the team to patients/families/caregivers and other colleagues.
• Maintains a professional appearance and demonstrates behaviors consistent with established policies/procedures. People
• Serves as a mentor and direct support for nursing colleagues.
• Fosters teamwork and contributes to the achievement of team goals. Growth
• Seeks opportunities to impact the growth of the organization by promoting excellence in patient experience and providing high quality care to the patients served.
• Encourages physician engagement by elevating care of the workforce and mitigating escalations. Finance
• Assumes personal accountability for work time. Other
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” and “Mission and Value Statement.”

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Required
• Master's Degree in Nursing Preferred
• 2+ years experience as an RN Required
• 1+ years experience in a leadership role Preferred
• 1+ years experience as a preceptor Preferred Benefits

Memorial Satilla Health, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and…