Registered Nurse RN - Medical Intermediate Care Unit MIMCU - PT Days

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
• •Up to 100 lbs weight lifted
• •Up to 50 lbs weight carried
• •Moderate vision (31-65%)
• •Frequently kneeling/stooping/bending (31-65% of time)
• •Frequently standing/walking (31-65% of time)
• •Frequently pushing/pulling (31-65% of time)
• •Frequently intensity of work (31-65% of time)
• •Reading ability
• •Writing ability
• •Reasoning ability
• •Talking ability
• •Keyboarding ability
• •De-escalation training certification

Desired Qualifications

• •Previous specialty experience
• •BSN
• •Beginning clinical bedside leadership role
• •Mentoring in clinical bedside leadership
• •Participation on PNGC councils
• •Participation on Nursing Quality Teams
• •Participation on Unit Council
• •Improvement of NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators
• •Improvement of RN Satisfaction
• •Improvement of Employee Engagement
• •Improvement of Culture of Safety
• •Improvement of Patient Experience data
• •Recruitment and retention of nursing care team
• •Development of knowledge and skills
• •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
• •Promotion of clinical outcomes
• •Consultation with more experienced clinicians
• •Accepting feedback as a constructive professional development tool
• •Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• •Active work to make own and related teams successful
• •Effective communication with patients, families and colleagues at all levels
• •Showing consideration and respect for others
• •Fostering customer service
• •Effective prioritization
• •Recognition of problems
• •Utilization of evidence based practice
• •Demonstration of personal mastery
• •Leadership of self and others
• •Appropriate delegation
• •Support of NGHS shared governance model
• •Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit
• •Demonstration of competence in RN I performance expectations
• •Serving as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team
• •Willingness to respond to care team member needs for assistance
• •Adaptation to change
• •Demonstration of flexibility
• •Leading interdisciplinary rounds
• •Facilitation of appropriateness of care
• •Facilitation of smooth transitions across the continuum
• •Positive impact on the work environment
• •Display of respect for individuals and the organization
• •Effective application of the nursing process within the framework of the organization's professional model of care
• •Meeting of clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• •Demonstration of initiative
• •Seeking formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area
• •Demonstration of critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
• •Effective delegation of care as appropriate
• •Retention of accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• •Clear and effective communication with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers
• •Incorporation of Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• •Incorporation of Sister Simone Roach's 7 Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice
• •Creation of an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development
• •Asking for feedback and improving practice
• •Identification of opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management
• •Application of evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• •Ensuring improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning
• •Serving as a resource for students
• •Demonstration of an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• •Understanding of lateral violence, and impairment
• •Holding peers accountable for healthy relationships
• •Demonstrating deep interdependence by valuing team member contributions, talents, and skills
• •Modeling safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship
• •Support of unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
• •Active participation in unit-based selfcare activities
• •Continual evaluation of work processes with the goal of improvement
• •Achievement of strategic initiatives
• •Support in quality of care activities
• •Evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• •Support of 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