Infusion RN Registered Nurse - AHN Cancer Institute - Forbes - Full Time

Highmark Health•Monroeville, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. Nursing care typically crosses the outpatient-to-inpatient continuum. The role provides professional nursing care, collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, supports patient safety and quality initiatives, and promotes patient- and family-centered communication. The nurse may accept assignments outside the primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency. Employees must follow applicable laws, company policies, ethical standards, HIPAA privacy requirements, and information-security guidelines.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
CPR certification.
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide transformational leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to the future of healthcare.
Build the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks based on patient needs and the skill level of RNs, LPNs, and support staff; assign duties and lunches when acting as charge nurse.
Consider environmental safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when making assignments and care decisions.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills and foster positive employee attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Help create a culture that accepts mistakes and supports safe risk-taking, creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals.
Participate in department-specific quality initiatives and ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate, and evaluate assigned LPN work within the LPN scope of practice, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with physician direction and nurse and hospital policies, involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families, comparing findings with norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and document reported or recorded changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Use formal and independent learning, current research, and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
Participate in systematic peer review and seek feedback; identify strengths and areas for professional development.
Meet hospital time-and-attendance guidelines.
Center care on the patient by assessing patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
Participate in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
Promote compassionate, patient- and family-centered communication.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use effective time-management skills to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with the company Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws and regulations, company policies, training requirements, HIPAA privacy policies, and information-security guidelines.