FirstChoice RN Surgical Services New York

Trinity Health • Albany, NY

12h • Onsite

About The Position

This is a part-time position for an RN in Surgical Services. The role involves providing holistic patient care, utilizing critical thinking skills, and developing individualized plans of care. The nurse will also be responsible for patient and family education, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, and participating in quality improvement initiatives. Key responsibilities include managing team members, organizing workload, and maintaining professional growth. The position also requires adherence to Trinity Health's mission, vision, and values, as well as maintaining confidentiality and ensuring a safe working environment. The nurse must comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and Trinity Health policies.

Requirements

• Graduation from accredited nursing program
• Current Nursing License in the state where working
• Active BLS certification
• Required to have and maintain the credentials required per their specialty area (ex: ACLS, TNCC, etc).
• Minimum of two (2) years of recent clinical experience, depending on your specialty, in the area in which you work.
• Knowledge of nursing theory, practice and age specific needs as demonstrated by successful completion of introductory orientation behaviors for Registered Nurse.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to initiate and maintain collegial relationships with coworkers and therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Critical thinking skills necessary to perform principal duties and responsibilities of job description.
• Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail when planning and performing professional nursing care.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

Nice To Haves

• BSN Preferred

Responsibilities

• Views patient holistically; considers physical, psychosocial, emotional, age specific, cultural and spiritual factors and demonstrates appropriate assessment skills for an identified patient population.
• Provides critical thinking skills by gathering and analyzing patient information, then responding to a patient situation.
• Implements corrective and/or creative interventions to achieve desired outcomes.
• Develops implements, evaluates and revises an individualized plan of care using evidenced based interventions and standards of care, while actively involving the patient and family.
• Identifies needs and begins to plan for care across the continuum.
• Identifies patient and family education needs. Develops and implements teaching plan based on existing standards, seeking out additional resources when necessary.
• Utilizes teach back methodology to assure patient and family is learning effectively.
• Identifies necessary resources to assure readiness for discharge and begins to develop plan in collaboration with other disciplines.
• Participates effectively as a member of the interdisciplinary team by collaborating to achieve patient outcomes.
• Participates directly or indirectly in interdisciplinary rounds.
• Assures achievement of quality patient outcomes in collaboration with medical staff and health care team.
• Participates in unit/organizational quality and safety initiatives to improve patient outcomes.
• Understands and is aware of potential hospital acquired conditions such as nosocomial infections, falls and pressure ulcers and actively seeks to prevent.
• Identifies customer service needs and meets or exceeds expectations.
• Creates an environment that promotes customer satisfaction and the patient experience.
• Provides written and verbal communications and information that is respectful, accurate, timely, concise and thorough.
• Communicates patient status, priority goals and interventions to colleagues and other disciplines during consultation, rounds and handoffs in an effective manner.
• Manages team members to provide care for a group of patients during a designated time frame.
• Prioritizes necessary activities and delegates appropriately.
• Provides effective team member skills.
• Organizes and prioritizes individual workload around patient and unit needs in an effective manner.
• Adjusts activities and plans depending on situation.
• Seeks to improve personal organizational skills to increase work efficiencies, and consistently demonstrates purposeful rounding.
• Stewards available resources effectively.
• Identifies own education and professional growth needs, develops plan and seeks resources to address.
• Completes professional activities such as self-appraisal, Healthstream assignments, licensure renewal contact hours.
• Participates in QI and evidence-based practice activities and integrates resultant changes into practice.
• Identifies problems and initiates appropriate follow up, solution or recommended resolution.
• Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships.
• Approaches conflict in a constructive manner.
• Maintains the confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patient, physicians, associates, and visitors at all Trinity Health facilities.
• Discusses patient and hospital information only among appropriate personnel in appropriately private places.
• Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health Corporate Integrity Program, Code of Ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level