RN - ED (Full Time, Nights), Westfield

Highmark Health•Westfield, NY

1d•$32 - $51•Onsite

About The Position

Westfield Memorial Hospital is a small rural hospital with 4 inpatient medical-surgical beds, providing essential healthcare services including a 24/7 Emergency Department, inpatient care, cardiac stress testing, laboratory, and radiology services. These services are critical for the citizens in a remote area of Western New York. Allegheny Health Network (AHN), a part of Highmark Health, is a 9-hospital system committed to transforming healthcare by providing highly effective services and fostering an inclusive environment with opportunities for growth and education.

Requirements

Completed RN training program
NY RN licensure or have applied for practice permit
CPR certification

Nice To Haves

Certification in area of specialty

Responsibilities

Assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families.
Is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.
Provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting.
Contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Assigns or delegates tasks based on patient needs and the skill level of RN, LPN, or support staff.
Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing the charge role.
Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of intervention, and predictability of outcome.
Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues, cultivating a work environment that promotes positive employee attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture where risk-taking is safe and expected, and creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability are key.
Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
Participates in department-specific quality initiatives (e.g., EBP population specific) and assures appropriate order sets are used.
Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs as prescribed by physician, nurse, and hospital policy, including the patient and family.
Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
Analyzes the health status of individuals and families, comparing data with the norm when possible, to determine patient care needs.
Assesses patient reports/records change of condition, notifies physician and/or supervisor, intervenes appropriately, and documents accordingly.
Accepts assignments in areas other than the primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
Seeks formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
Identifies areas of strength and areas where professional development would be beneficial.
Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
Places the patient at the center of everything by continuously evaluating and assessing patient and family satisfaction and performing as an advocate for patients and customers.
Participates in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family-centered.
Assesses for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
Utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within the established work shift.