Advanced Clinician RN (ED/ICU) - Rapid Response Team - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Night Shift - Full time

Sharp HealthCare•San Diego, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Clinician RN (ED/ICU) on the Rapid Response Team at Sharp Memorial Hospital provides direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families. This role involves utilizing systematic planning and critical thinking to coordinate patient care with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring timely information exchange and adherence to safety standards. The Advanced Clinician RN acts as a clinical expert, resource, leader, and problem-solver for staff within and outside the unit, contributing to professional development and education. Key aspects include integrating care across disciplines, applying expert nursing principles to improve outcomes, and fostering therapeutic nurse-patient/family relationships, including addressing ethical dilemmas and providing age-appropriate patient education. The position also entails assuming responsibilities as a charge nurse and preceptor, demonstrating leadership skills, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

Requirements

Graduate of nursing school.
2 years recent pertinent clinical experience as defined by the CBA.
California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing.
AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association.
ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association.
NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) - Various-Employee provides certificate.

Responsibilities

Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.
Use systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
Demonstrate leadership in the identification, resolution and evaluation of system/practice/work flow issues.
Utilize the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
Serve as a clinical resource and contribute to professional development/education of other staff members.
Integrate care with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate patients' access to needed resource from preadmission to discharge.
Apply nursing principles in the provision of science-based comprehensive care delivery to identified patient population.
Assume leadership role in interdisciplinary conference by initiating, facilitating and communication.
Document per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
Delegate/assign and communicate expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
Coach health care team member on how to determine if delegated task is appropriately assigned, how to accept a delegated task, and each individual's accountability for performing and completing the task.
Use judgment and problem solving skills to assess appropriateness of physician's orders, is unafraid to question orders and to initiate, redirect and resolve issues.
Assist staff in developing communication skills that result in customer satisfaction.
Guide staff in new patient situations and/or those unfamiliar to the nurse or not commonly seen in the department.
Help coworkers improve performance.
Transfer knowledge and mentor others to improve clinical practice.
Apply expert nursing principles that will directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patient, family, physicians, and staff.
Assist with matching patients' needs with staff ability and/or developmental needs.
Be organized and able to clearly present a formal class or presentation by using words, examples, pictures or graphics.
Establish a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
Serve as a resource to staff for regulatory issues including EMTALA, Durable Power of Attorney, Organ Donations, Consents and Withdrawal of Life Support.
Identify ethical dilemmas and take appropriate steps to resolve issues in a timely manner.
Use alternative and complex strategies to interact with and create a therapeutic relationship with patients' and families who are perceived as challenging by others.
Teach these strategies to other health care providers.
Provide age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness.
Serve as a role model for professional behavior through participation in committees.
Assume the responsibility of resource role and teaching role.
Assume the responsibilities of charge nurse and preceptor for new graduates and/or new orientees to unit.
Demonstrate leadership skills, which allow the nurse to positively influence the practice of others.
Provide expert direct patient care and integrate care with multidisciplinary team to facilitate patient access to needed resources from pre-admission to discharge.
Demonstrate expert nursing principles that directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patients, family, physicians and staff.
Recognize inconsistencies in patient care and manage potential complications.
Apply knowledge, expertise and leadership to achieve outcomes for unit/department/hospital/organization/community.
Comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards.
May participate in the process of evidence-based research utilization.