Registered Nurse RN - GI/Renal - PT Nights

Northeast Georgia Health System•Gainesville, GA

53d

About The Position

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Is a professional member of VOICE professional nursing shared governance providing feedback on issues being addressed at meetings. Participates as a member on VOICE councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool. The GI/Renal Unit is a 25-bed nursing unit with four rooms designed for semi-private occupancy. It is a medical/surgical unit designated to care for patients with renal and gastroenterological illnesses, as well as other general medical patients in times of high census. As the designated renal medical unit, their specialty is caring for patients that require Peritoneal Dialysis and is the preferred unit for these patients to be placed if clinically appropriate. Care is provided for a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms, including but not limited to: End Stage Renal Disease requiring Hemodialysis End Stage Renal Disease requiring Peritoneal Dialysis Rhabdomyolysis • Acute kidney injury Acute renal failure Hematuria requiring Continuous Bladder Irrigation Ulcerative Colitis Crohn's Disease Liver cirrhosis Gastrointestinal hemorrhage Abdominal pain (non-surgical), N/V/D, Gastritis Cholecystitis Other medical patients in times of high census Patients and patient family members receive physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial.

Requirements

Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia
Associates Degree
One year of experience as a professional RN. New graduate RNs or those with less than one year of experience will be referred to the RN Residency Program.
Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

Nice To Haves

National certification in clinical specialty
Bachelor of Nursing Degree
Long Term Care: One year experience
Membership is professional organization

Responsibilities

Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
Demonstrates basic assessment skills
Demonstrates the 5 rights of medication administration
Manages care for basic patient assignment and progresses to care for increasingly complex patients
Accurately documents all aspects of the nursing process using the electronic medical record as applicable
Understands and complies with all DNV standards
Accesses and follows polices
Evaluates patient response to interventions and adjusts plan of care appropriately
Consistently coordinates interdisciplinary care
Uses resources effectively to reduce waste
Participates in PI processes
Participates in maintaining and monitoring the work environment to ensure compliance with DNV regulations
Coordinates discharge planning
Actively contributes to a culture of safety within the organization
Includes the patient and family in patient care
Provides effective education appropriate for the learning needs of patient/ family
Demonstrates appropriate customer service behaviors
Participates in organizational and unit based customer service initiatives
Plans patient care based on assessment
Displays basic prioritization and time management skills
Evaluates patient's response to interventions and seeks support to adjust the plan of care
Utilizes resources on the unit to increase understanding of the care of unfamiliar patient populations
Recognizes signs of deteriorating patient and accesses appropriate resources
Reads nursing research/EBP articles
Participates in discharge planning with increasing responsibility and coordination
Demonstrates the ability to rapidly recognize and anticipate changes in patient status and takes appropriate action while maintaining professional composure
Recognizes existence of nursing practice trends and questions care as it relates to evidence based practice
Consistently and independently prioritizes patient care
Supports unit goals
Demonstrates support of shared governance through awareness of initiatives
Completes a professional development plan and shows progress on personal learning goals
Supervises and ensures completion of task assigned to ancillary/support staff
Participates in the enhancement of the nursing profession and supporting the community
Appropriately delegates tasks
Seeks resources by actively consulting with the interdisciplinary team
Demonstrates support of shared governance through awareness of initiatives and by providing input
Serves in a unit leadership role(s)
Serves as the Nurse in Charge as necessary fulfilling the following responsibilities: a. patient flow, b. matches given resources to patients for shift, c. escalates concerns using the chain of command