RN Registered Nurse - AHN Center for Reproductive Medicine - North Fayette - Full Time

Highmark Health•Pittsburgh, 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 performed as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. Nursing care may cross the outpatient-to-inpatient continuum. The role provides professional leadership, supports colleagues through mentoring and collaboration, and contributes to patient safety and quality initiatives. The nurse uses the nursing process to develop and deliver individualized care, advocates for patients and families, and maintains clinical knowledge through ongoing learning and professional development. Employees must follow applicable ethical and legal standards, company policies, the Code of Business Conduct, HIPAA privacy requirements, and information security guidelines. The employer prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on protected status under applicable law.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN licensure 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.

Responsibilities

Provide transformational leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to the future of healthcare.
Support the team by helping colleagues succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks according to patient needs and staff skill levels; assign duties and meal breaks when serving in a charge role.
Consider environmental safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and predictability of outcomes when assigning care.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback about clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills, and promote positive attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Help foster a culture that accepts mistakes and supports safe risk-taking, creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals.
Participate in department-specific quality initiatives and ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate LPN practice within the applicable scope, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care consistent with physician direction and organizational policies, involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze individual and family health status to determine care needs, comparing data with norms when possible.
Assess and document changes in patient condition, notify physicians or supervisors, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue ongoing professional learning and development for self and others, including use of research and evidence to maintain clinical and professional skills.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review and seek feedback; identify strengths and professional development needs.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Center care on patients and families by evaluating satisfaction, advocating for patients and customers, and participating in department-specific satisfaction initiatives.
Communicate compassionately in a patient- and family-centered manner and assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use time effectively to complete assigned duties and responsibilities during the established work shift.
Comply with HIPAA, data security guidelines, the Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws and regulations, company policies, and required training.