Registered Nurse (RN)- Mother Baby (FT Nights)

Wellstar Health System•Marietta, GA

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse provides individualized, high-quality, safe patient care in the Mother Baby setting as a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team. The nurse practices within the Wellstar Shared Governance Model, the Wellstar Professional Practice Model, evidence-based practice, and applicable nursing standards, including the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and American Nurses Association standards. The role supports patient and family involvement, service excellence, system policies, and professional nursing practice. This is a full-time night position with a stated schedule of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The RN applies the nursing process, coordinates care and documentation, collaborates with patients and care teams, supports quality improvement and research, maintains competencies, and promotes the effective use of resources. A minimum of two years of direct patient care experience is required.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing or nursing diploma required; Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
Minimum of 2 years of direct patient care experience.
Current RN license: single-state or multistate compact.
BLS certification required upon hire; accepted options include American Red Cross BLS and BLS instructor certification.
NRP certification required, with listed alternatives including American Red Cross NALS and NRP instructor; provisional NRP is allowed within 180 days.
Ability to read, write, and speak English.
Basic computer skills and ability to use technology to support clinical care.
Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and customer service skills.
Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and respond to emergencies decisively, calmly, and respectfully.
Excellent time-management, evidence-use, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Responsibilities

Apply the nursing process, evidence-based practice, analytical and critical thinking to deliver individualized clinical care and evaluate patient outcomes.
Provide relationship-based, patient-centered care tailored to population-specific characteristics and cultural diversity.
Partner with patients and significant others, keep them informed, provide patient teaching, and make patient goals central to care planning.
Use current clinical practice standards.
Coordinate and document safe, quality patient care through inclusive interdisciplinary communication and timely documentation.
Promote respectful and inclusive clinical environments, teamwork, and responsible use of resources.
Participate in performance improvement, research utilization, shared governance, and other activities that promote safe, quality care.
Complete required competency assessments, mandatory education, and population-specific education.
Serve as a preceptor or mentor for nurses, staff, or students as appropriate.
Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement, and participate in evaluating patient-care products when appropriate.
Follow health system policies, clinical competencies, legal and regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and patient safety goals.
Collect data, raise relevant clinical questions, consult appropriate experts, and use evidence and resources to address practice questions.
Plan for patient care across the care continuum.
Participate in developing protocols and procedures in collaboration with care managers and other healthcare team members.
Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with Wellstar policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.