Registered Nurse RN - GI/Renal - PT Nights

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia
• •Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma
• •At least 1 year of RN experience
• •Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations
• •Meets experience requirements upon hire
• •Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit
• •Reading
• •Writing
• •Reasoning
• •Talking
• •Keyboarding
• •Up to 100 lbs (Weight Lifted)
• •Up to 50 lbs (Weight Carried)
• •Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65%
• •Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65%
• •Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65%
• •Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65%
• •Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65%

Desired Qualifications

• •Capable clinician with previous specialty experience
• •BSN
• •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 and Nursing Quality Teams
• •Actively participates on Unit Council
• •Helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators
• •RN Satisfaction
• •Employee Engagement
• •Culture of Safety
• •Patient Experience data
• •Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team
• •Developing knowledge and skills
• •Showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients
• •Providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process
• •Coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift
• •Promote the achievement of clinical outcomes
• •Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians
• •Accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool
• •Delivery of 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 and fosters customer service
• •Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
• •Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others
• •Delegates appropriately
• •Supports NGHS shared governance model
• •Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility
• •Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum
• •Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization
• •Effectively applies 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
• •Demonstrates initiative and 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 while retaining 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 by asking for feedback and improving 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 by assuming 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, and impairment
• •Holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
• •Demonstrating deep interdependence by valuing team member contributions, talents, and skills
• •Models safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship
• •Supports unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
• •Actively participates in unit-based selfcare activities
• •Continually evaluate work processes with the goal of improvement, to achieve our strategic initiatives
• •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, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement