RN - Acute Care - Ortho Surgical - Part-Time Night Shift

Wellstar Health System • Roswell, GA

9h • Onsite

About The Position

At Wellstar, the mission is to enhance the health and well-being of every person served. The organization prides itself on being a leading example in healthcare, driven by professionals dedicated to making a difference. The RN Clinical Nurse is an active member of an interdisciplinary team, ensuring individualized, high-quality, and safe patient care. This role operates within a clinical environment managed by Nurse Managers and other leaders, supported by the Wellstar Shared Governance Model. Practice is guided by the Wellstar Professional Practice Model, evidence-based practice, and research. All RN Clinical Nurses are expected to be licensed, knowledgeable, and adhere to the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act, as well as the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards from the American Nurses Association. As part of the patient services team, the individual must uphold the patient's voice, system policies, and procedures, while striving for service excellence. Wellstar is one of Georgia’s largest and most integrated healthcare systems, with over 24,000 team members committed to personalized care. The company's vision is to deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time, guided by values of compassion, excellence, and honoring every voice. Wellstar is recognized for its high-quality care and inclusive culture, having been featured on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list and Seramount’s 100 Best Companies list, fostering a Great Place to Work culture.

Requirements

• Associates Nursing or Diploma (Nurse) Nursing
• RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor
• Minimum 5 years RN experience
• Required direct patient care experience
• Ability to read, write and speak English language
• Optimize the use of technology to support clinical care
• Basic computer skills
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative skills
• Customer service skills
• Ability to function in a fast paced environment and respond to emergencies in using a decisive, composed and respectful manner
• Possess excellent time management skills
• Practices nursing using evidence and analytical skills
• Possessing strong critical thinking skills

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors Nursing-Preferred

Responsibilities

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice, uses analytical/critical thinking and ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes
• Provides relationship-based patient centered care that is consistent with population specific characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease, etc) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
• Always partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using such appropriate method for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report; interdisciplinary rounds; just in time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient and significant others updated and making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practices using current clinical practice standards.
• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc); completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care including initiating and/or leading such activities as well as, promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively supports/participates in shared governance at all levels in the system.
• Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education.
• Serves as a preceptor and/or or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce, modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment
• Promotes Evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing.
• Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products.
• Upholds all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards ensuring by way of example, such goals as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems safety absolutes
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence-based practice.
• Consults appropriate experts and uses appropriate resources and evidence to address practice questions.
• Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care.
• Participates in the development of protocols and procedures when called upon or through self-initiation in collaboration with care managers and other members of the health care team to achieve best practice outcomes (i.e., decrease in re-admission rates; avoidable days; adverse events; etc).
• Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Benefits

• Support to do more meaningful work and enjoy a more rewarding life
• Connect with the most integrated health system in Georgia
• Nationally ranked and locally recognized for high-quality care and inclusive culture
• Featured on the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For” list
• Featured on Seramount 100 Best Companies list
• Foster the culture of Wellstar as a Great Place to Work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree