Trauma (Nights), Forbes Hospital

Highmark Health•Monroeville, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse works on a 41-bed medical-surgical unit specializing in orthopedic, stroke, trauma, and neurosurgery patients. The unit is described as faster-paced medical-surgical, and nurses can obtain orthopedic, stroke, and trauma certifications there. Forbes Hospital is a 315-bed Level II trauma hospital in Monroeville, offering services including trauma, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics, and psychiatry. The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. The role provides professional leadership, supports colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing, participates in interdisciplinary and quality initiatives, and promotes patient safety and patient- and family-centered care. Nurses use the nursing process to develop and deliver individualized care, evaluate patient outcomes and satisfaction, communicate changes in condition, and manage assigned duties within the work shift. Employees are expected to follow hospital policies and applicable ethical, legal, privacy, and information-security requirements, including HIPAA and the company’s Code of Business Conduct.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license 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 based on patient needs and staff skill levels; assign duties and lunches when serving in a charge role.
Consider safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when assigning or delegating work.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback about clinical practice and role performance, and share knowledge and skills.
Participate in interdisciplinary teams evaluating clinical care or health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives and participate in department-specific quality initiatives; ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise delegates and evaluate LPN practice within the LPN scope as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care according to physician direction, nursing and hospital policy, and patient and family needs.
Establish culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other health care providers.
Analyze individual and family health status and compare findings with norms where possible to determine care needs.
Assess and document changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue ongoing learning, use research and evidence to maintain and develop professional skills, and promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review and seek feedback; identify strengths and opportunities for professional development.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Continuously assess patient and family satisfaction and participate in department-specific satisfaction initiatives.
Communicate compassionately with patients and families, assess their concerns, and attempt to resolve them.
Use effective time management to complete assigned responsibilities within the established work shift.
Comply with applicable laws, company policies, training requirements, HIPAA, privacy policies, information-security guidelines, and the Code of Business Conduct.