RN - ICU (Full Time), St. Vincent

Highmark Health•Erie, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse works in the 20-bed Intensive Care Unit at St. Vincent Hospital, a busy medical/surgical ICU that provides CRRT and AHN TeleICU services. Common diagnoses include pulmonary, GI, surgical, GU, postpartum, pregnancy over 20 weeks’ gestation, psychiatric, and renal conditions. The ICU has received the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence. St. Vincent Hospital is Magnet-designated and serves the Lake Erie region. The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for assigned individuals and families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. The role provides leadership in a professional practice setting, promotes safe and compassionate patient- and family-centered care, and contributes to interdisciplinary and quality-improvement efforts. Employees must follow applicable ethical, legal, privacy, information security, and company conduct requirements, including HIPAA and the company’s Code of Business Conduct.

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 leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to team success through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks according to patient needs and staff skill levels; assign duties and lunches when serving in a charge role.
Consider environmental safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and predictability of outcomes when assigning or delegating work.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback about clinical practice and role performance, and share knowledge and skills with colleagues.
Help foster a culture that accepts mistakes and supports safe risk-taking.
Participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of clinical care or health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals, and participate in department-specific quality initiatives; ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise delegates and evaluate assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care according to individual needs, prescriptions, and hospital policy, including patient and family involvement.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other health care providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families against norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and report changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, intervene appropriately, and document actions.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuous learning, use current research and evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills, and promote the profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in systematic peer review and seek feedback; identify strengths and areas for professional development.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Continuously assess patient and family satisfaction and participate in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
Communicate compassionately in a patient- and family-centered manner and assess and attempt to resolve patient or family concerns.
Use effective time management to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with HIPAA, privacy and information security policies, the Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws and regulations, and company training requirements.