RN Acute Care General Surgery-Ortho

2810 Douglas Hospital, Inc.•Douglasville, GA

15h

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team responsible for ensuring patients, families, and significant others receive individualized, high-quality, safe patient care. The role practices in a clinical environment administered by Nurse Managers and other leaders, with support from the Wellstar Shared Governance Model, Professional Practice Model, evidence-based practice, and research. The nurse upholds the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act, the American Nurses Association Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics, system policies and procedures, and service excellence goals while advocating for the patient’s voice.

Requirements

Minimum of 2 years of direct patient care nursing experience.
Associate degree in Nursing or a nursing diploma; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing is preferred.
Active Registered Nurse license: single-state RN or RN compact multi-state license.
Current BLS certification or an accepted equivalent: American Red Cross BLS or BLS Instructor.
Ability to read, write, and speak English.
Basic computer skills and ability to optimize technology to support clinical care.
Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and customer service skills.
Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and respond to emergencies decisively, calmly, and respectfully.
Excellent time-management, evidence-based nursing, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Nursing.

Responsibilities

Perform the nursing process—including assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation—using evidence-based practice and analytical and critical thinking.
Provide individualized, relationship-based, patient-centered care that reflects population-specific characteristics and cultural diversity.
Partner with patients and significant others, keep them informed, support patient teaching, and make patient goals the focus of the plan of care.
Practice according to current clinical practice standards.
Coordinate delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care through inclusive interdisciplinary communication and timely documentation.
Contribute to teamwork, collaboration, fiscal responsibility, and recruitment and retention of healthcare team members.
Participate in performance improvement, research, research utilization, and shared governance; initiate or lead related activities as appropriate.
Complete initial and ongoing competency assessments and required mandatory and population-specific education.
Serve as a preceptor or mentor to nurses, staff, or students, modeling professional nursing practice and supporting a healthy work environment.
Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement, including participation in value analysis when evaluating patient care products.
Uphold healthcare system policies, clinical competencies, and legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements, including patient safety goals.
Participate in data collection, raise clinical questions, consult appropriate experts, and use relevant resources and evidence to address practice questions.
Plan proactively for patient care across the care continuum.
Participate in developing protocols and procedures with care managers and other healthcare team members to achieve best-practice outcomes.
Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.