Registered Nurse - MUSCP

Medical University of South Carolina•Mount Pleasant, SC

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides quality nursing care and is accountable for coordinating patient care. The role uses the nursing process—assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to provide age- and developmentally appropriate, patient- and family-centered care in collaboration with multidisciplinary team members. Care addresses patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs, including nursing diagnoses, outcomes, interventions, care coordination, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation consistent with MUSC policies. The nurse helps maintain a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through protection of patient privacy and respectful, responsive, accepting, and professional conduct. The position also involves participation in a professional practice model, shared governance, peer review, professional development, and efforts to promote leadership, clinical excellence, effective teamwork, autonomous practice, accountability, and critical thinking. The nurse applies care-management principles to coordinate efficient and effective patient-care services, identify clinical priorities, and take action to improve patient outcomes. MUSC identifies RN I and RN II qualification levels. RN I requires an associate’s degree. RN II requires an associate’s degree and at least one year of work experience as a registered nurse. Both levels require licensure as a registered nurse in South Carolina or a compact state and current qualifying BLS certification.

Requirements

Associate’s degree required for RN I and RN II.
RN II requires a minimum of one year of work experience as a registered nurse.
Licensure as a Registered Nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state.
Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification.
Ability to perform job functions while standing, walking, and sitting; bend at the waist; kneel; climb stairs; reach in all directions; use both hands and legs; demonstrate finger dexterity; and perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders.
Ability to be physically qualified for respirator use, initially and as required.
Corrected 20/40 vision and ability to see and recognize objects close at hand and at a distance.
Ability to work in a latex-safe environment and indoors.
Frequently lift, lower, push, pull, and/or carry objects weighing approximately 50 pounds unassisted, exert up to 50 pounds of force, and lift 25 pounds from 36 inches to overhead.
Infrequently work in dusty areas and confined or cramped spaces.

Responsibilities

Provide nursing care using assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Direct and lead assigned team members and collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to provide age- and developmentally appropriate care.
Provide patient- and family-centered care addressing physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs.
Assess patients, develop nursing diagnoses, identify outcomes, plan and implement interventions, coordinate care, provide health teaching and promotion, and evaluate goals and interventions in accordance with MUSC policies.
Maintain a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment while ensuring patient privacy and respectful, responsive, accepting, and professional behavior.
Participate in the professional practice model, including shared governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, and professional development.
Promote leadership, clinical excellence, effective teamwork, autonomous practice, accountability, critical thinking, and a healthy work environment.
Coordinate effective and efficient delivery of patient-care services using care-management principles.
Identify clinical priorities and initiate actions to improve patient outcomes.
Accept personal responsibility for professional growth.