FT Nights/RN
About The Position
The professional nurse provides patient- and family-centered care using the nursing process, valuing each individual and addressing patients’ physical, psychological, emotional, and social needs. The nurse develops individualized plans of care with patients and their designated care partners, consistent with patients’ cultural beliefs and values. The role integrates evidence-based practice, clinical expertise, patient and family preferences, and cultural values to support optimal health care. The nurse also identifies learning needs and provides understandable, affirming education; follows established nursing practices and protocols to minimize risk; uses information technology to support communication, knowledge management, error mitigation, and ethical decision-making; and uses data and improvement methods to continually improve care quality and safety. The nurse functions within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Develop nursing plans of care with patients and designated care partners to address individualized needs and priorities, consistent with cultural beliefs and values.
- Interact with co-workers, patients, their families or designated care partners, and other staff in a manner consistent with Jefferson’s values.
- Integrate evidence-based practice, clinical expertise, and patient and family preferences and cultural beliefs into care delivery.
- Identify patients’ and care partners’ learning needs and priorities and provide useful, understandable, and affirming education.
- Follow established nursing practices and protocols and individual performance expectations to minimize risks of harm.
- Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support ethical decision-making.
- Monitor care-process outcomes using data and apply improvement methods to design and test changes that improve patient-care quality and safety.
- Participate effectively in nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.
- Provide safe, compassionate, and coordinated care that respects patients’ personal preferences, priorities, needs, and cultural beliefs and values.
Benefits
- Medical and prescription insurance
- Supplemental insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts
- Retirement plans
- Tuition assistance
- Voluntary benefits, including access to group insurance rates and discounts
- Tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service
- Medical and prescription insurance access for all colleagues, including per-diem colleagues and those working less than part-time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
