RN - Step Down Unit (Part Time, Weekends), St. Vincent

Highmark Health•Erie, PA

11d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. This role is with the Step Down Unit at St. Vincent Hospital, part of Allegheny Health Network. The RN provides professional leadership, collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, promotes patient safety and quality initiatives, and delivers individualized, culturally and age-appropriate care. The role includes assigning or delegating tasks, supervising delegated LPN work as appropriate, responding to patient condition changes, advocating for patients and families, and contributing to ongoing learning and professional development. Employees must follow hospital policies and applicable ethical, legal, privacy, and information-security requirements.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
CPR certification.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide transformational leadership and contribute to the future of healthcare in a professional practice setting.
Support team development by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks based on patient needs and staff skill levels; assign duties and lunches when serving in a charge role.
Consider patient safety, condition, intervention complexity, and predictability of outcomes when assigning or delegating work.
Give peers verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills and foster positive attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives and participate in department quality initiatives; ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise and evaluate delegated LPN work within the LPN scope of practice, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with physician direction and nurse and hospital policies, involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze individuals’ and families’ health status to determine care needs.
Assess and document changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuous learning and professional development for self and others, including learning informed by current research and evidence.
Participate in professional organizations and systematic peer review, seek feedback, and identify professional development needs.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Evaluate patient and family satisfaction, advocate for patients and customers, and participate in department patient-satisfaction initiatives.
Communicate compassionately with patients and families, assess concerns, and attempt to resolve them.
Manage time effectively to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Comply with the Code of Business Conduct, company policies, applicable laws and regulations, HIPAA, and information-security requirements.