Clinical Nurse 2, Cardiac/Tele Med Surg (Full-Time Days) - Pennsylvania Hospital

About the role

Penn Medicine is dedicated to its tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in medicine. This position is located at Pennsylvania Hospital on the 4 Cathcart medical-surgical unit, a 41-bed unit specializing in cardiac conditions and CHF. Many patients are on telemetry monitoring, and nurses care for post-cardiac catheterization patients and manage cardiac drips.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague practices as a full partner on the health care team, consistently demonstrating safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. This role independently provides patient care through the nursing process, accepts accountability for assigned patients (ranging from infancy to elderly), and demonstrates competency across eight domains: Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork. The nurse works closely with the interprofessional team to coordinate care across the continuum, expands knowledge and skills for individualized care, seeks and provides feedback for improved practice, and complies with all regulatory and accrediting standards.

Responsibilities

• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research: Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Leadership: 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.
• Person and Family Centered Care: Recognizes the patient (or designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates 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.
• Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Technology/Informatics: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: Effectively engages in cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to provide safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Requirements

• Licensure: Registered Nurse – Pennsylvania (Required)
• Certification: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS/CPR) as a healthcare provider per American Heart Association (Required)
• Education: Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required); BSN from an accredited school of nursing (Required)
• Experience: More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

Benefits

Penn Medicine offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits program designed to help employees get healthy and stay healthy, including one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.