Registry Acute Care Float RN Clinician

Emory Healthcare•Johns Creek, GA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the facility based/operating unit float pool position is to provide clinical resources in a variety of patient care departments throughout an Emory Healthcare operating unit/facility. This role is for a capable clinician who has acquired broad experience in caring for patients and has developed a sound understanding about the care of a particular patient population. The clinician routinely uses acquired knowledge, theory, research, and experience to respond to changes in clinical situations and is able to apply the Synergy Model for Care in practice, personalizing care for each patient/family. The position serves as a resource to lesser experienced nurses and to support staff, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of therapeutic patient care, patient advocacy, clinical pathways/care maps, team dynamics, and hospital systems. The clinician prioritizes nursing interventions for assigned patients, identifies complex patient problems, ensures continuity of care, coordinates diagnostic procedures, and anticipates potential patient crises through continual evaluation of patient outcomes. The role may also involve participation in quality improvement efforts, serving as a resource for other registered nurses and support staff, and potentially functioning in the Charge Nurse role, making patient care assignments. Thorough documentation of all aspects of patient care, following established charting procedures, is required. The clinician also participates in the orientation of new staff and may serve as a preceptor.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Valid, active unencumbered nursing license or temporary permit approved by the Georgia Licensing Board
24 months of recent nursing experience within the past five years

Responsibilities

Provide clinical resources in a variety of patient care departments throughout an EHC operating unit/facility
Routinely use acquired knowledge, theory, research, and experience to respond to changes in clinical situations
Apply the Synergy Model for Care in practice, and use this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family
Serve as a resource to lesser experienced nurses and to support staff
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of therapeutic patient care, patient advocacy, clinical pathways/care maps, team dynamics, and hospital systems
Prioritize nursing interventions for assigned group of patients
Identify complex patient problems related to symptoms, behavioral changes, abnormal diagnostic data and learning needs
Ensure continuity of care
Coordinate diagnostic procedures
Anticipate potential patient crises through continual evaluation of patient outcomes
May participate in quality improvement efforts
Serve as a resource for other registered nurses and support staff
May function in the Charge Nurse role and make patient care assignments
Thoroughly document all aspects of patient care, following established charting procedures
Participate in orientation of new staff and may serve as a preceptor