RN (Full Time)- Operating Room/GI, AHN Wexford

Highmark Health•Wexford, PA

20d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for assigned individuals and families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. This role is in the Operating Room/GI at AHN Wexford. The nurse provides professional leadership, contributes to a collaborative team, and supports a safe, patient- and family-centered care environment. The position includes coordinating and evaluating care with an interdisciplinary team, supporting quality and patient-safety initiatives, and maintaining clinical competence through ongoing learning and professional development. Employees must follow applicable ethical and legal standards, company policies, privacy and information-security requirements, HIPAA requirements, and the company Code of Business Conduct. The employer prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on protected status.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license 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.
Build the team by helping others succeed 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 the maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of interventions, and predictability of outcomes.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills, and foster positive employee attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Support a culture that accepts mistakes and encourages safe risk-taking, creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability.
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, use appropriate order sets, and support evidence-based practice for relevant patient populations.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate assigned LPNs within their scope of practice, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate an individualized patient plan of care in accordance with physician direction and nurse and hospital policies, including care involving patients and families.
Establish culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze individuals’ and families’ health status against norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess reported or recorded changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, intervene appropriately, and document actions.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others; use research and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review, seek feedback, and identify strengths and professional-development needs.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Center care on the patient by assessing patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
Participate in department-specific patient-satisfaction initiatives and communicate compassionately with patients and families.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use effective time management to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with HIPAA, privacy policies, information-security guidelines, applicable laws and regulations, company policies, training requirements, and the Code of Business Conduct.