Clinical Nurse 2- HUP Inpatient ENT/Plastic Surgical Unit (Rhoads 3)- Full-Time, Rotating Shifts

Responsibilities

• Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Qualifications

• BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association.
• Registered Nurse - PA (Required).
• Education Specialization: BSN from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience: More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable.