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About The Position

Requirements

• Associate/Diploma prepared RNs from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution requires 2+ years of experience.
• If hired without a BSN or MSN, must enroll in a BSN or MSN program within 1 year of hire date/RN job date and complete program within 5 years of hire/RN job date.
• Active Ohio RN License.
• May be required to obtain other state licensure.
• Foreign graduates must have license validated through TruMeritTM per Ohio Board of Nursing code for Foreign Graduates.

Nice To Haves

• BSN from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution or MSN.

Responsibilities

• Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
• Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
• Be mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
• Work with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify and share safety best practices.
• Be mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicate safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
• Uses systems thinking - Sees the pieces or components; sees patient and family within the isolated environment of the unit; sees self as key resource to support the family through the healthcare experience through care coordination.
• Monitors and complies with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
• Collects clinical data; follow algorithms, decision trees, and protocols.
• Matches formal knowledge with clinical events to make appropriate decisions; uses available resources as needed.
• Documents plan of care, care delivered, and patient and family outcomes.
• Focuses on the usual and customary needs of the patient and family; anticipates future needs; bases care on standards and protocols; maintains a safe physical environment; acknowledges death as a potential outcome.
• Consistently integrates age specific concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.
• Using self-management support, develops care goals and actions through partnerships with patients and families.
• Facilitates patient and family learning by providing structured education based on the plan of care goals, and the needs of the patient and family; uses teach back to evaluate effectiveness.
• Follows standards and guidelines; implements clinical changes and research-based practices developed by others; recognizes the need for further learning to improve patient care; recognizes routine or obvious changing patient situation (e.g., deterioration, crisis); in unusual care situations, seeks help when needed to identify patient problem.
• Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process.
• Demonstrates openness to coaching and mentoring from others.
• Facilitates learning by assisting with peer and student learning experiences.
• Works with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
• Is receptive to the contributions of the interdisciplinary team in team meetings and discussion regarding patient issues.
• Participates in shared governance at the point-of-care as a member of unit-based councils or by demonstrating awareness and contributing to shared decision making (reading minutes, giving feedback and implementing council decisions).
• Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
• Works on behalf of patient and family; assesses personal values; aware of ethical conflicts/issues that may surface in clinical setting; makes ethical/moral decisions based on rules; represents patient when patient cannot represent self; aware of patients' rights.
• Assesses cultural inclusion.
• Recognizes the potential impact of culture on the patient/family experience, and incorporates culturally inclusive concepts into patient care.
• Consistently integrates age specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.

Benefits

• Comprehensive job description provided upon request.