Registered Nurse – Intermediate Care Unit

Job description

Job Requirements
POSITION SUMMARY:
To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: Demonstrating leadership through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care according to the standards of professional nursing practice. Nursing care is provided to the individual patient, based upon cultural, spiritual and age specific needs.
PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Quality/No Harm: Demonstrates effective medication administration provided to patients as evidenced by:
• Preceptor Observation Tool, Skills Fair Demonstration, and Clinical Practice.
• Demonstrates appropriate delegation and supervision of patient care activities within the healthcare setting.
• Demonstrates effective communication with other members of the healthcare team and promotes effective team functioning.
• Utilizes Health First computer systems with regards to order entry, order inquiry, and patient care documentation.
• Demonstrates effective and safe clinical practice as evidenced by Skills Fair demonstration, completion of yearly Competency Assessment, and Age Specific Checklist.
• Coordinates interdisciplinary plan of care based on current evidence based practice.
• Documents all nursing care, change in condition, response to therapy, treatments, procedures and referrals on patient record to meet standards.
• Demonstrates dependability, reliability and flexibility.

Customer Experience:
• Provides patient, family, and/or caregiver education as directed by the plan of care.
• Provides service to patients and families with sensitivity and respect for their needs, expectations, age, cultural, and individual differences.
• Contributes to the patient experience as evidenced by positive patient satisfaction scores and HCAHPs scores for department/medical center and/or written compliments by patients/others as well as consistent performance of purposeful hourly rounding and bedside shift report.

Stewardship:
• Uses and cares for equipment and supplies economically.

Work Experience
POSITION SUMMARY:
To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: Demonstrating leadership through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care according to the standards of professional nursing practice. Nursing care is provided to the individual patient, based upon cultural, spiritual and age specific needs.
PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Quality/No Harm: Demonstrates effective medication administration provided to patients as evidenced by:
• Preceptor Observation Tool, Skills Fair Demonstration, and Clinical Practice.
• Demonstrates appropriate delegation and supervision of patient care activities within the healthcare setting.
• Demonstrates effective communication with other members of the healthcare team and promotes effective team functioning.
• Utilizes Health First computer systems with regards to order entry, order inquiry, and patient care documentation.
• Demonstrates effective and safe clinical practice as evidenced by Skills Fair demonstration, completion of yearly Competency Assessment, and Age Specific Checklist.
• Coordinates interdisciplinary plan of care based on current evidence based practice.
• Documents all nursing care, change in condition, response to therapy, treatments, procedures and referrals on patient record to meet standards.
• Demonstrates dependability, reliability and flexibility.

Customer Experience:
• Provides patient, family, and/or caregiver education as directed by the plan of care.
• Provides service to patients and families with sensitivity and respect for their needs, expectations, age, cultural, and individual differences.
• Contributes to the patient experience as evidenced by positive patient satisfaction scores and HCAHPs scores for department/medical center and/or written compliments by patients/others as well as consistent performance of purposeful hourly rounding and bedside shift report.

Stewardship:
• Uses and cares for equipment and supplies economically.

Schedule : Part-Time
Shift Times : 700pm_700am
Paygrade : PG-29R RN-3