Registered Nurse 2

CAMC Health System•Charleston, WV

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse 2 provides competent clinical care, using critical thinking to identify and meet patient needs and achieve positive outcomes through group processes. The role demonstrates leadership behaviors that support patient and departmental goals and assists with unit quality-improvement and research projects. The nurse identifies legal and ethical issues and takes appropriate nursing actions. The nurse consistently applies the nursing process and manages more complex patients with minimal assistance. They identify learning needs, perform advanced skills independently, and begin helping others develop their skills through teaching and learning. The role contributes to positive outcomes through professional relationships and leadership, adjusts personal practice based on performance-improvement and quality-improvement outcomes, and develops understanding of research and its application to nursing practice. For positions involving direct patient contact, the employee must demonstrate developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment, and care for the patient ages identified by the department. This includes obtaining and interpreting information in terms of patient needs, understanding growth and development, and understanding the range of treatment required. Competency is established through initial orientation and ongoing validation for independent performance of the job duties and unit- or department-specific competencies. The position requires maintaining and documenting required education, positive customer-service and coworker relations, compliance with attendance and organizational policies, participation in continuous quality improvement, and cost-effective work. The nurse follows departmental pay practices and scheduling policies, including overtime, varied shifts, and on-call situations, works in alignment with the organization’s mission and strategic plan, and performs related duties as assigned. The work schedule is nights, with a status of 72 hours per pay period, at Women & Children's Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia.

Requirements

Associate's degree in nursing required; a formal nursing program may be substituted for the associate degree.
One year of RN experience.
Registered Nurse credential required.
Basic Life Support required.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within one year of hire.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification required within one year of hire.
Must demonstrate competency through initial orientation and ongoing competency validation.
For direct-patient-contact positions, must demonstrate the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of patient needs, knowledge of growth and development, and understanding of the range of treatment needed by patients.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate consistent use of the nursing process and manage more complex patients with minimal assistance.
Identify personal learning needs, independently perform advanced skills, and begin assisting others in skill development using teaching and learning processes.
Demonstrate professional relationships and leadership behaviors that contribute to positive patient outcomes through group processes.
Identify when personal practice should change based on performance-improvement or quality-improvement outcomes.
Assist with unit quality-improvement and research projects and expand understanding of research applications to nursing practice.
Identify legal and ethical issues and implement appropriate nursing actions.
Provide developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment, and care for the patient ages identified by the department, when the role involves direct patient contact.
Maintain and document applicable required education.
Demonstrate positive customer service and coworker relations and comply with the attendance policy.
Participate in departmental and institutional continuous quality-improvement activities.
Perform work cost-effectively and in accordance with departmental pay practices and scheduling policies, including overtime, varied shifts, and on-call situations.
Follow organizational and departmental policies and procedures, work in alignment with the organization’s mission and strategic plan, and perform related duties as assigned.