Registered Nurse RN - Critical Care - Resource Pool - Full Time Day - North Pod

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia
• •Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma
• •At least 2 years of RN experience
• •Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations
• •Meets experience requirements upon hire
• •As appropriate for work unit
• •Up to 100 lbs
• •Occasionally 0-30% of time
• •Up to 50 lbs
• •Occasionally 0-30% of time
• •Moderate
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Frequently 31-65% of time
• •Reading
• •Writing
• •Reasoning
• •Talking
• •Keyboarding

Desired Qualifications

• •Capable clinician with previous specialty experience
• •BSN
• •Focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills
• •Shows growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients
• •Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice
• •Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role
• •Seeks mentoring in this process
• •Participates as a member on PNGC councils
• •Participates on Nursing Quality Teams
• •Participates on Unit Council
• •Helps with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators
• •Improves RN Satisfaction
• •Improves Employee Engagement
• •Improves Culture of Safety
• •Improves Patient Experience data
• •Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team
• •Delivers safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• •Actively works to make own and related teams successful
• •Effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels
• •Shows consideration and respect for others
• •Fosters customer service
• •Effectively prioritizes
• •Recognizes problems
• •Utilizes evidence based practice
• •Demonstrates personal mastery
• •Leadership of self and others
• •Delegates appropriately
• •Supports NGHS shared governance model
• •Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit
• •Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team
• •Responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance
• •Adapts to change
• •Demonstrates flexibility
• •Leads interdisciplinary rounds
• •Facilitates appropriateness of care
• •Smooths transitions across the continuum
• •Positively impacts the work environment
• •Displays respect for individuals and the organization
• •Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization's professional model of care
• •Uses the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• •Demonstrates initiative
• •Seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area
• •Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
• •Effectively delegates care as appropriate
• •Retains accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• •Communicates clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers
• •Incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• •Incorporates Sister Simone Roach's 7 Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice
• •Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development
• •Asks for feedback
• •Improves practice
• •Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management
• •Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• •Ensures improvements in the practice setting
• •Assumes responsibility for self-development in life-long learning
• •Serves as a resource for students
• •Demonstrates an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• •Lateral violence
• •Impairment
• •Holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
• •Values team member contributions, talents, and skills
• •Models safe work hours
• •Time management
• •Efficiency
• •Stewardship
• •Supports unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
• •Actively participates in unit-based selfcare activities
• •Continually evaluates work processes with the goal of improvement
• •Achieves and maintains de-escalation training certification as appropriate for work unit
• •Supports in quality of care activities
• •Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• •Supports unit-based activities aimed at the ownership improving the patient's experience
• •Improves employee engagement
• •Improves nurse sensitive indicators on the unit
• •Focuses on improvement