Registered Nurse I/II, CICU (72 bi-weekly hours)

Cincinnati Children's

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing patient services with a focus on compliance, clinical judgment, and interprofessional collaboration. The Registered Nurse will maintain an understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards, support leadership in compliance efforts, and monitor safety and departmental policies. The position requires the use of clinical judgment in performing caring practices, including collecting clinical data, following protocols, documenting care, and integrating age-specific and culturally inclusive concepts. The nurse will also engage in clinical inquiry to improve practice, participate in shared decision-making within the interdisciplinary team, and demonstrate advocacy and moral agency. The role emphasizes a holistic team approach, both in patient care and in advancing science and discovery, with a commitment to making children's health better.

Requirements

Associate/Diploma prepared RNs from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution requires 2+ years of experience.
If hired without a BSN or MSN, must enroll in a BSN or MSN program within 1 year of hire date/RN job date and complete program within 5 years of hire/RN job date.
Active Ohio RN License.
May be required to obtain other state licensure.
Foreign graduates must have license validated through TruMeritTM per Ohio Board of Nursing code for Foreign Graduates.

Nice To Haves

BSN from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution or MSN.

Responsibilities

Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Monitor and comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
Collect clinical data; follow algorithms, decision trees, and protocols.
Matches formal knowledge with clinical events to make appropriate decisions; uses available resources as needed.
Documents plan of care, care delivered, and patient and family outcomes.
Consistently integrates age specific concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.
Uses self-management support, develops care goals and actions through partnerships with patients and families.
Facilitates patient and family learning by providing structured education based on the plan of care goals, and the needs of the patient and family; uses teach back to evaluate effectiveness.
Follows standards and guidelines; implements clinical changes and research-based practices developed by others.
Recognizes the need for further learning to improve patient care; recognizes routine or obvious changing patient situation (e.g., deterioration, crisis); in unusual care situations, seeks help when needed to identify patient problem.
Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process.
Demonstrates openness to coaching and mentoring from others.
Facilitates learning by assisting with peer and student learning experiences.
Works with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
Is receptive to the contributions of the interdisciplinary team in team meetings and discussion regarding patient issues.
Participates in shared governance at the point-of-care as a member of unit-based councils or by demonstrating awareness and contributing to shared decision making (reading minutes, giving feedback and implementing council decisions).
Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
Works on behalf of patient and family; assesses personal values; aware of ethical conflicts/issues that may surface in clinical setting; makes ethical/moral decisions based on rules; represents patient when patient cannot represent self; aware of patients' rights.
Assesses cultural inclusion.
Recognizes the potential impact of culture on the patient/family experience, and incorporates culturally inclusive concepts into patient care.
Consistently integrates age specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.