RN Outpatient - Primary Care Float Pool - Erie - Part Time

Highmark Health•Erie, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides nursing care in an outpatient setting, assessing human responses and planning, implementing, and evaluating care for 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 includes professional leadership, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, supporting colleagues, promoting patient safety and quality initiatives, and delivering compassionate, patient- and family-centered care. The Registered Nurse uses the nursing process to develop and carry out individualized plans of care, responds to changes in patient condition, and pursues ongoing professional learning and development.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN licensure or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
CPR certification.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide transformational leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to the future of healthcare.
Support team development by helping others succeed 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 outcome predictability when assigning or delegating care.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback about clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills with colleagues and promote effective communication, trust, collaboration, and positive employee attitudes.
Help foster a work environment where mistakes can be acknowledged and creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability are encouraged.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals.
Participate in department-specific quality initiatives and ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate LPNs within their scope of practice as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with prescriptions and applicable policies, including care involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families and compare data with norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and document reported or recorded changes in condition, notify a physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue lifelong learning and professional development for self and others, including learning based on current research and evidence.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review and seek feedback on practice; identify strengths and areas for professional development.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Center care on patients by assessing patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
Participate in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
Promote compassionate, patient- and family-centered communication.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use effective time management to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with ethical and legal standards, company policies, HIPAA privacy requirements, data security guidelines, and the Code of Business Conduct.