Registered Nurse RN - Stress Lab - FT Days

Northeast Georgia Health System•Gainesville, GA

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. Participates as a member on PNGC 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.

Requirements

Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
Current National Professional Certification required.
Bachelor's Degree, BSN
BSN with 5 years of RN experience.
MSN with 3 years of RN experience.
Demonstrated competence in RN III performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
NGHS Classes attendance required: Clinical Preceptor Course, Advanced Preceptor Course, DPM Huddle Facilitation Class, Charge Nurse Development Course (ANPD Frontline Nurse Leader Program.)
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
Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit
Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time
Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time
Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time
Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time
Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time
Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

Responsibilities

Serves as a charge nurse and as a leader in clinical nursing practice, identifying patient- and staff-focused opportunities for improvement, participating in the peer review process, and leading the change process.
Participates in 2 NGMC committee/councils
In partnership with management, assumes formal leadership responsibilities for creating and maintaining a healthy work environment, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, new graduate and/or new hire on-boarding, or other key functional assignment area that enhances the quality of patient care and the practice or the practice environment
Leads the unit in the application of national and organizational best practices to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
Identifies ethical situations within patient care or within the workforce and leads the effort to mitigate as appropriate
Exemplifies Sister Simone Roach’s theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into unit-based activities
Seeks opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team beyond clinical unit
Serves as a leader in clinical quality improvement and the integration of evidence-based practice in the care setting to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
Demonstrates knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques and leads evidence-based performance improvement initiatives on the unit.
Assists in Continuously assesses the environment for opportunities for clinical and workplace quality improvement. Developing and coordinating unit-based education, in- services, and skills validation
Serves as an advanced preceptor
Mentors and coaches clinical preceptors
Assists the unit leader in setting regular clinical and workplace quality priorities
Coaches colleagues on cultural intelligence and addresses workplace horizontal lateral violence and impairment
Role models selfcare techniques and resilient behavior
Supports and encourages Leads unit-based shared governance activities and participation
Actively participates in identifying and developing unit-based workplace violence reduction initiatives
Serves as a unit-based champion (e.g., diabetes, falls, wound, CAUTI, CLABSI, SSI, HCAHPS, IT, etc.); completes unit- based audits and follows-up with staff accordingly to achieve positive outcomes
Assumes ownership and Leads unit-based activities aimed at ownership for improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit, and achieves with a focus on demonstrated year-over-year improvement in outcome metrics. Improvement
Leads quality of care activities utilizing A3 thinking, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice