Registered Nurse RN - Medical Intermediate Care Unit MIMCU - FT Nights

Northeast Georgia Medical Center•Gainesville, GA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides direct, safe patient care using the nursing process and coordinates care for assigned patients during a shift to support clinical outcomes. The RN delivers effective care to complex patients as part of an interdisciplinary team, communicates with patients, families, and colleagues, and uses evidence-based practice. The position calls for a clinician who continues to expand specialty knowledge and skills, seeks and provides feedback, and takes a beginning bedside leadership role with mentoring as needed. New graduate clinical RNs focus on developing their knowledge and skills and growing their ability to care for increasingly complex patients. NGHS's RN Residency supports new graduates through orientation, education, didactic learning, state-of-the-art simulations, and training with a dedicated preceptor. The RN contributes to interdisciplinary rounds, care transitions, quality improvement, shared governance, and unit-based efforts to improve patient experience, employee engagement, and nursing-sensitive indicators. The role also includes supporting colleagues, delegating appropriately while maintaining accountability, and pursuing ongoing professional development.

Requirements

Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
Associate's degree (ADN) or diploma required.
At least 1 year of RN experience, demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations, or meeting experience requirements upon hire.
Ability to deliver safe, effective, and efficient care that meets population-specific guidelines.
Effective communication with patients, families, and colleagues at all levels, with consideration, respect, and customer-service orientation.
Ability to prioritize effectively, recognize problems, and use evidence-based practice.
Demonstrated personal mastery, self-leadership, appropriate leadership of others, and appropriate delegation.
Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on the unit.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including occasional lifting up to 100 pounds and carrying up to 50 pounds, and frequent standing, walking, pushing, pulling, and bending or stooping.

Nice To Haves

Previous specialty experience preferred.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide direct, safe patient care based on the nursing process and coordinate care for assigned patients during a shift.
Deliver effective, efficient care to complex patients as part of the interdisciplinary team, following population-specific guidelines.
Seek and provide feedback to improve clinical practice; consult experienced clinicians and accept feedback as a professional development tool.
Participate as a care-team partner, respond to colleagues' needs for assistance, and adapt flexibly to change.
Lead interdisciplinary rounds to support appropriate care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
Apply the nursing process to address patients' and families' clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.
Identify clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical, and spiritual issues through critical thinking.
Delegate care appropriately while remaining accountable for the quality of care provided.
Communicate clearly with patients, families, physicians, advanced practice providers, and other healthcare team members; use safety and error-prevention tools.
Seek opportunities to improve specialty practice, apply evidence-based practice, and pursue lifelong learning; serve as a resource for students.
Identify quality-improvement opportunities and contribute to quality-of-care activities and evaluation of nursing practice.
Support unit-based shared governance, self-care activities, and initiatives to improve patient experience, employee engagement, and nursing-sensitive indicators.
Promote respectful, healthy team relationships and value the contributions, talents, and skills of team members.
Maintain de-escalation training certification as appropriate for the work unit.
Use time, work hours, and resources safely and efficiently; continually evaluate work processes for improvement.
Participate in PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate and actively participate on Unit Council.