RN Registered Nurse - AHN Radiation Oncology - FLOAT - Full Time

Highmark Health•Wexford, PA

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About The Position

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 accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. Nursing care typically crosses the outpatient-to-inpatient continuum. The role provides professional nursing care, supports a safe and collaborative practice environment, and works with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to evaluate care and achieve appropriate outcomes. The nurse may accept assignments outside the primary unit and must perform duties within their individualized competency. The position is in AHN Radiation Oncology and is identified as a float, full-time role.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
American Heart Association CPR.
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 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 the skills of RNs, LPNs, and support staff; assign duties and lunches when acting as charge nurse.
Consider environmental safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when assigning or delegating work.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills, supporting a work environment characterized by positive employee attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Help create a culture that accepts mistakes and supports 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 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 physician direction and nurse and hospital policies, including care involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other health care providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families, comparing data with norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and report changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, intervene appropriately, and document accordingly.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individualized competency.
Pursue continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Use formal and independent learning, current research, and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
Participate in systematic peer review and seek informal feedback from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others; identify strengths and areas for development.
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.
Communicate compassionately with patients and families in a patient- and family-centered manner.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use effective time management to complete assigned responsibilities within the established work shift.
Protect confidential and covered information, including cardholder data, and comply with HIPAA and company privacy and information security policies.
Comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws and regulations, policies, and training requirements.