RN Clinical Nurse II- Surgical/Trauma Critical Care Unit Stepdown Focus

UNC Health • Chapel Hill, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse II provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards and is accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director for coordinating and delivering patient care using the nursing process in a hospital setting. This role is in the 40-bed Surgical Trauma Critical Care Unit (STCCU), a Level 1 Trauma-certified unit in the North Carolina Surgical Hospital. The unit cares for critically injured trauma and surgical patients, including patients receiving transplant, plastics, oncology, obstetrics, gynecology, gastrointestinal, and orthopedic care. Teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration are central to the unit’s approach.

This is an onsite, 36-hour-per-week position with three 12-hour shifts per week and rotating day, night, and weekend schedules. The nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:2 or 1:3. The position offers a benefits package and may qualify eligible applicants for incentives.

Requirements

• Graduate of a Board of Nursing-approved nursing education program.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
• At least one year of nursing experience.
• For hires after January 6, 2014: enroll in a bachelor’s degree program with a major in Nursing within four years of employment and obtain a bachelor’s or master’s degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of the employment date.

Nice To Haves

• Stepdown experience.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify and meet personal learning needs, attend relevant education programs, and use appropriate patient education materials with assistance.
• Assess patients’ and families’ readiness and ability to learn, including developmental and other factors that may affect learning.
• Identify expected patient outcomes, seek guidance when revising plans of care, participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of care, and communicate information that supports continuity of care.
• Provide competent care for patients with complex problems, addressing physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs.
• Perform bedside point-of-care testing as required by the patient care plan and follow organizational and nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
• Organize and prioritize care according to patient and family needs, and consult appropriate resources promptly for complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, or discharge-planning risks.
• Develop professional growth goals with assistance and work toward them within agreed time frames, or renegotiate them with a supervisor.
• Participate in collaboration across departments, unit goal-setting, performance improvement activities, cost-effective care, and communication with coworkers.
• Promote a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment and remain aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting health care.
• Assess complex patient situations, establish care priorities, synthesize assessment data, and anticipate patients’ and families’ discharge needs.
• Build relationships with families that support their ability to advocate for the patient and address their own needs.
• Collaborate with patients and families to prepare or update plans of care; use multidisciplinary resources and address cultural and ethnic considerations.
• Prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Read applicable research and share ideas or questions with staff for consideration in practice.

Benefits

• Benefits package.
• Eligible applicants may qualify for incentives.
• UNC Health benefits.
• Eligible employees who currently participate in TSERS or the ORP through another North Carolina agency may continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

What This Job Offers

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