Registered Nurse 2
About The Position
The Registered Nurse 2 demonstrates competent clinical skills and uses critical thinking to identify and meet patient needs. The role supports positive patient outcomes through group processes, displays leadership traits that contribute to patient and departmental goals, assists with unit quality improvement and research projects, and identifies legal and ethical issues to implement appropriate nursing actions. The nurse uses the nursing process consistently and manages more complex patients with minimal assistance. They identify learning needs, independently perform advanced skills, and begin helping others develop skills through teaching and learning. The role includes building positive professional relationships, responding to quality-improvement outcomes by adjusting practice, and expanding knowledge of research and its application to nursing. The employee must obtain and demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to provide developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment, or care for the patient ages identified by the department. Competency is demonstrated through initial orientation and ongoing validation for independent performance of assigned tasks and additional duties. The position also requires completing applicable education, providing positive customer service, following attendance and scheduling policies, participating in continuous quality improvement, working cost-effectively, and following organizational and departmental policies.
Requirements
- Associate's degree in nursing required; a formal nursing program may be substituted for the associate's degree.
- One year of RN experience.
- Registered Nurse credential required.
- Basic Life Support required within 30 days of hire.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within one year of hire.
- Must demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to provide developmentally appropriate care for the patient ages identified by the department.
- Must demonstrate competency through initial orientation and ongoing competency validation.
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 through teaching and learning.
- Demonstrate professional and leadership behaviors that contribute to positive patient outcomes through group processes.
- Identify when practice changes are needed based on performance-improvement and quality-improvement outcomes.
- Expand understanding of the research process and its application to nursing practice.
- Assist with unit quality-improvement and research projects.
- Identify legal and ethical issues and implement appropriate nursing actions.
- Demonstrate developmentally appropriate patient assessment, treatment, and care, including obtaining and interpreting information in terms of patient needs and understanding growth, development, and treatment needs.
- Maintain and document required education and complete orientation and ongoing competency validation.
- Demonstrate positive customer service and co-worker relations; comply with attendance, scheduling, pay-practice, and on-call policies.
- Participate in departmental and institutional continuous quality-improvement activities and perform work cost-effectively.
- Perform work in alignment with the organization's mission and strategic plan, follow applicable policies and procedures, and perform related assigned duties.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
