Emeritus Registered Nurse PD

Brown Medicine • Providence, RI

3d • $37 - $74 • Onsite

About The Position

The Emeritus Registered Nurse (E-RN) program aims to extend the careers of experienced RNs by enabling them to mentor graduate and new hire nurses, transferring knowledge across generations. The E-RN will leverage their extensive nursing career knowledge to support nursing team members in key areas such as safety, quality, patient experience, and team member engagement. A primary focus for the E-RN is to mentor new nurses through direct observation, guidance, just-in-time education, or shadow observations, ultimately contributing to a remarkable patient experience. The E-RN will uphold the organization's vision and professional commitments to team members, patients, and families by utilizing Zero Harm safety behaviors, error prevention tools, and high reliability strategies to ensure a safe and extraordinary patient experience. Flexible and self-scheduling options are available. Brown University Health employees are expected to embody the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence in all interactions. Additionally, all employees must demonstrate the core Success Factors: Instill Trust and Value Differences, Patient and Community Focus, and Collaborate.

Requirements

• Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing or licensure as a Registered Nurse in accordance with the Nurse Licensure Compact agreement of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred; Associate degree with appropriate acute care or safety/quality experience will be considered.
• Knowledge of Epic EMR, computer skills (Microsoft Word, Power point, excel), strong communication skills and self-directed, BLS certification.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island.
• Current BLS American Heart Association certification required

Nice To Haves

• NP, specialty certification a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provides support to nursing team members in specific areas of strategic priority related to safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and team member engagement, at the directions of, and under the supervision of, department leaders.
• Requests and assesses assignment with skill and abilities in collaboration with unit leaders.
• Accepts various assignments as delegated; examples include, but not limited to: Team member engagement - Serves as primary or secondary preceptor for new nurses, mentors nurse residents (clinical and/or didactic) and other new orientee nurses on the unit and participates in/leads unit shared governance activities.
• Provides unit-level in-services, serves as a unit expert for Epic EMR, may be a Nurse Champion for a specific initiative, or cover a patient assignment for team member meal breaks.
• Safety - rounds for patient safety, responds to alarms, and monitors patients during off-unit transports.
• Quality – makes rounds for problem-prone quality areas, completes audits/gathers data, participates in unit process improvement projects, and assists the unit with regulatory readiness.
• Patient satisfaction - rounds proactively for patient needs, respond to patient call bells, supports admissions, transfers, and discharges, facilitates video (Teams) connection between patient and significant other(s), follow up with discharged patients via telephone.
• Performs other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree