Ambulatory Nurse II - Dermatology Surgery Mohs

Responsibilities

• Prepares patients for surgery and ensures readiness for the procedure.
• Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
• Recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

Qualifications

• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing (Required)
• RN with state licensure- PA (Required)
• BLS/ACLS/PALS per specialty (Required)
• Minimum 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience is (Required)
• BSN from an accredited school of nursing (Preferred)