Registered Nurse - MUSCP

Medical University of South Carolina

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Registered Nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), specifically within University Medical Associates (UMA) at the Clements Ferry MOB. The role involves providing quality nursing care and coordinating patient care, utilizing the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). The nurse will direct and lead assigned team members, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver age/developmentally appropriate care, and ensure patient/family-centered care focusing on physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This includes developing nursing diagnoses, identifying outcomes, planning and implementing interventions, coordinating care, providing health teaching and promotion, and evaluating goals consistent with MUSC policies. The nurse is also responsible for maintaining a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment, demonstrating professionalism, and actively participating in a professional practice model through shared governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, and professional development. The role also involves coordinating efficient patient care services using care management principles and identifying clinical priorities to improve patient outcomes. MUSC is a large academic medical center with a 750-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital, the Ashley River Tower (cardiovascular, digestive disease, and surgical oncology), Hollings Cancer Center (one of fewer than 70 elite National Cancer Institute designated centers), a Level I Trauma Center and the Institute of Psychiatry. In addition, there are more than 100 outreach clinics, hospital/health system affiliations, and telehealth sites. MUSC Medical Center is also one of only three Magnet® designated hospitals in South Carolina.

Requirements

Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or Nursing License Compact
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
Current South Carolina RN License or multi-state Nursing License Compact
Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification

Responsibilities

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation)
Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice
Provide patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs
Providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of MUSC
Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior
Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model
Participating in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking
Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles
Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes
Demonstrates ability to function in a professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, promotion of a healthy work environment and acceptance of personal responsibility for professional growth