Registered Nurse (RN) - Acute Care - Cardiac Telemetry - FT Days

Wellstar Health System•Douglasville, GA

17h

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides direct acute-care nursing for patients in cardiac telemetry. The role uses the nursing process and evidence-based practice to deliver individualized, relationship-based care, coordinate care across the continuum, and promote safe, high-quality patient outcomes. The nurse partners with patients and their significant others, communicates and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, and contributes to performance improvement, research utilization, professional development, and efficient use of resources. The position also requires compliance with Wellstar policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Requirements

Completion of an accredited or approved school of nursing with required clinical hours.
At least 5 years of experience; direct patient care experience is preferred.
Current Registered Nurse license: single-state RN or RN Compact multi-state license, required upon hire.
Basic Life Support certification: BLS, ARC-BLS, or BLS-I, required upon hire.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification: ACLS, ARC-ALS, ACLS-I, or ACLS-P; ACLS-P must be completed within 180 days.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing is preferred.
Direct patient care experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation, using evidence-based practice and critical thinking.
Provide individualized, relationship-based, culturally responsive patient-centered care consistent with population-specific characteristics and current clinical practice standards.
Partner with patients and significant others, as appropriate, through bedside shift reports, interdisciplinary rounds, patient teaching, updates, and care planning focused on patient goals.
Coordinate delivery and timely documentation of safe, quality patient care through inclusive interdisciplinary communication and a respectful clinical environment.
Practice in a fiscally responsible manner and support recruitment and retention of healthcare team members.
Participate in and support performance improvement, research utilization, shared governance, and interdisciplinary initiatives to promote safe, quality care.
Complete initial and ongoing competency assessments and mandatory and population-specific education.
Serve as a preceptor or mentor for professional nurses, staff, or students as appropriate.
Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, performance improvement, and participation in value analysis of patient care products.
Uphold organizational policies, procedures, clinical competencies, and applicable legal, regulatory, accreditation, and patient-safety standards.
Participate in data collection, formulate clinical questions, consult appropriate experts, and use evidence and resources to address practice questions.
Plan proactively 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 Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.