Registered Nurse-Pre/PACU-Westmorland Endoscopy Center

Highmark Health•Greensburg, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. Nursing care is provided primarily in an outpatient surgery center. The Registered Nurse contributes to a professional practice setting through leadership, teamwork, mentoring, delegation, collaboration, and feedback. The role uses the nursing process to deliver individualized, culturally and age-appropriate care; promote patient safety and quality initiatives; address changes in patient condition; and advocate for patients and families. The nurse also pursues ongoing professional development, supports effective communication and collaboration, and follows attendance, privacy, security, legal, and ethical requirements.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
CPR certification.
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.
3–5 years of Pre/PACU experience.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to the future of healthcare.
Support team development by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks according to patient needs and staff skill levels; assign staff duties and lunch breaks when serving in a charge role.
Consider patient safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when planning care.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills and foster positive attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Contribute to a work culture that supports learning from mistakes, creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives and participate in department-specific quality initiatives; ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate LPNs within their scope of practice, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care according to physician direction, nursing standards, hospital policy, and patient and family needs.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze individual and family health status against norms, when possible, to identify care needs.
Assess and report changes in patient condition to the physician and/or supervisor, intervene appropriately, and document actions.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue lifelong learning and professional development for self and others; use research and evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review and seek feedback; identify strengths and opportunities for professional development.
Meet time and attendance guidelines under hospital policy.
Center care on patients by assessing patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
Participate in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives and communicate compassionately with patients and families.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Manage time effectively to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with the company code of business conduct, applicable laws and regulations, company policies, training requirements, HIPAA, and data security policies; protect confidential information.