RN Registered Nurse Neuro Medical Full Time Day Shift

Northeast Georgia Health System•Gainesville, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Northeast Georgia Health System is dedicated to improving community health. The Neuro/Medical unit is a 36-bed Neuro medical and Intermediate Care nursing unit. This mixed Neuro unit provides care to a variety of intermediate care and standard acute neuro patients. This includes individuals with lower to high acuity ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, patients post 25-hour thrombolytic treatment, those requiring continuous EEG monitoring, and patients with neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barre’ Syndrome, Myasthenia Gravis, and ALS. The unit also manages patients with hemodynamic instability needing antiarrhythmic treatment, chest tube care, epidural/PCA management, and tracheostomy care.

Requirements

Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
At least 1 year of RN experience.
Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines.
Actively work to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicate with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, show consideration and respect for others and foster customer service.
Effectively prioritize, recognize problems, and utilize evidence based practice.
Demonstrate personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegate appropriately, and support NGHS shared governance model.
Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit.

Nice To Haves

Responsibilities

Serve as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and respond willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility.
Lead interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
Positively impact the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization.
Effectively apply the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
Demonstrate initiative and seek formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area.
Demonstrate critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care.
Effectively delegate care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporate Safety behavior and error prevention tools.
Incorporate Sister Simone Roach’s 7 Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice.
Create an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice.
Identify opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
Apply evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice.
Ensure improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.
Serve as a resource for students.
Demonstrate an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and hold peers accountable for healthy relationships.
Demonstrate deep interdependence by valuing team member contributions, talents, and skills.
Model safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship.
Support unit-based shared governance activities while on duty.
Actively participate in unit-based selfcare activities.
Continually evaluate work processes with the goal of improvement, to achieve strategic initiatives.
Achieve and maintain de-escalation training certification as appropriate for work unit.
Support in quality of care activities, evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
Support unit-based activities aimed at improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement.