RN Clin Nurse Periop III

Wellstar Health System•Acworth, GA

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers, ensuring patients, families, and significant others receive individualized, high-quality, safe patient care. The nurse practices in a clinical environment administered by Nurse Managers and other leaders and supported by the Wellstar Shared Governance Model. Practice is guided by the Wellstar Professional Practice Model, evidence-based practice, research, Wellstar Values, the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act, and American Nurses Association scope-of-practice and ethics standards. The RN upholds the patient’s voice, system policies and procedures, and service excellence goals. The nurse performs the nursing process and coordinates patient-centered care in partnership with patients and significant others. The role also supports safe and effective team-based care, professional development, evidence-based practice, research, performance improvement, and efficient use of resources. The position requires a minimum of five years of direct patient-care nursing experience.

Requirements

Associate degree in nursing or nursing diploma required; a bachelor’s degree in nursing is preferred.
Current Registered Nurse license: single-state RN or RN compact/multistate license.
BLS certification required upon hire; accepted options include Basic Life Support, American Red Cross Basic Life Support, or Basic Life Support Instructor.
Minimum five years of direct patient-care nursing experience.
Ability to read, write, and speak English.
Ability to use technology to support clinical care and basic computer skills.
Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and customer-service skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and respond to emergencies decisively, calmly, and respectfully.
Excellent time-management skills.
Evidence-based nursing practice, analytical ability, and strong critical-thinking skills.

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 needs and cultural diversity.
Partner with patients and significant others through appropriate communication, teaching, updates, and shared care planning.
Coordinate delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care and promote respectful, inclusive interdisciplinary communication.
Practice in a fiscally responsible manner and support teamwork, recruitment, and retention of healthcare team members.
Participate in and support performance improvement, research utilization, shared governance, and interdisciplinary initiatives; initiate or lead activities as appropriate.
Complete initial and ongoing competency assessments and required mandatory and population-specific education.
Serve as a preceptor or mentor for nurses, staff, and students, modeling professional nursing practice and contributing to a healthy work environment.
Promote evidence-based practice and nursing research, participate in value analysis, and contribute to evaluation of patient-care products.
Follow organizational policies, procedures, clinical competencies, and applicable legal, regulatory, accreditation, and safety requirements.
Participate in data collection, raise relevant clinical questions, consult experts, and use evidence and resources to address practice questions.
Plan proactively for patient care across the care continuum.
Participate in developing protocols and procedures in collaboration with care managers and other healthcare team members.
Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with Wellstar policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.