RN Outpatient - Pine Richland Medical Associates - Gibsonia - FT

Highmark Health•Gibsonia, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families in an outpatient setting. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. The role provides professional leadership, supports team development through mentoring and collaboration, coordinates and delegates care according to patient needs and staff competencies, and contributes to patient safety and quality initiatives. The nurse uses the nursing process to develop and evaluate individualized, culturally and age-appropriate plans of care with patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare providers. The nurse also monitors changes in patient condition, communicates concerns, advocates for patients, addresses patient and family concerns, and supports patient-centered satisfaction initiatives. The position requires compliance with applicable laws, company policies, ethical standards, HIPAA, and information security requirements. Employees must protect covered and confidential information.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide professional leadership and participate in the development of healthcare practice.
Support team success through role modeling, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
Assign or delegate tasks based on patient needs, staff skill levels, safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and predictability of outcomes; assign duties and lunch breaks when serving in a charge role.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives and participate in department-specific quality initiatives, including appropriate use of order sets.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate LPN practice within the applicable scope.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with provider orders and applicable policies, involving patients and families.
Establish culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze patient and family health status to identify care needs and respond to changes in condition, notifying the physician or supervisor, intervening appropriately, and documenting actions.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit when needed and perform duties within individual competency.
Maintain professional development through continuing learning, research, evidence-based practice, and participation in professional organizations and peer review.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines and use time-management skills to complete assigned duties within the work shift.
Advocate for patients and customers, assess patient and family satisfaction, promote compassionate patient- and family-centered communication, and attempt to resolve concerns.
Comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws and policies, HIPAA privacy requirements, and information security guidelines.