Registered Nurse Clinic

Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois•Lake Geneva, WI

8d•$31 - $47•Hybrid

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Clinic utilizes the nursing process and collaborates with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients. This role administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and State laws/practice act. The nurse performs assessments, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care, documenting according to standards. They develop, initiate, and execute a patient plan of care according to individualized needs, as prescribed by a Physician and/or clinic policy, including patient and family instruction. The role also involves utilizing available resources to teach and support patient and family education, providing education at the appropriate level of understanding. The nurse acts to resolve systems breakdowns, engages self and others in providing solutions, and participates in department or unit performance improvement activities, which may include shared governance. They use clinical expertise and guidance to other units/departments in support of the patient’s longitudinal plan of care, and utilize critical thinking regarding patient safety and patient experience, appropriately escalating to the chain of command. The position involves participation in the professional nursing continuum process, unit/department practice activities and decisions, and the peer review process. The nurse positively influences the professional and organizational environments and shared governance. They engage in personal development, support system-entity opportunities for continuous learning and growth, including developing or revising evidence-based practice guidelines. The role actively participates in mentoring and precepting new partners to the organization and offers ideas and/or solutions to practice issues, using innovative methods and intuitive skills to develop and implement plans of care and provide innovative ways to educate patients/families. The nurse also initiates interdisciplinary collaboration to meet patient/family educational needs and actively participates in a minimum of one departmental or unit performance improvement activity, which may include shared governance.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
ADN required upon hire, BSN preferred.
Minimum of 2 year's experience required.
Licensed as an RN in state of practice.
Approved CPR/BLS certification required within 3 months.

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred.

Responsibilities

Utilizes the nursing process and collaborates with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients.
Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and State laws/practice act.
Performs assessments, planning, intervention and evaluation of care.
Documents according to standards of care.
Develops initiates and executes a patient plan of care according to the individualized needs of the patient, as prescribed by Physician and/or clinic policy including patient and family instruction.
Utilizes resources available to teach and support patient and family education.
Provides education to the appropriate level of understanding.
Acts to resolve systems breakdowns and engages self and others in providing solutions.
Participates in department or unit performance improvement activities, may include shared governance.
Utilizes clinical expertise & guidance to other units/departments in support of the patient’s longitudinal plan of care.
Utilizes critical thinking in regards to patient safety and patient experience and appropriately escalates to the appropriate chain of command.
Participates in the professional nursing continuum process, unit/department practice activities and decisions and peer review process.
Positively influences the professional and organizational environments and shared governance.
Engages in personal development and supports system-entity opportunities for continuous learning and growth including developing or revising evidence-based practice guidelines.
Actively participates in mentoring and precepting new partners to organization.
Offers ideas and/or solutions to practice issues.
Uses innovative methods and intuitive skills to develop and implement plans of care.
Provides innovative ways to educate patient/families.
Initiates interdisciplinary collaboration to meet the patient/family educational needs.
Actively participates in a minimum of 1 departmental or unit performance improvement activities, may include shared governance.