Clinical Nurse 2- Inpatient- Labor & Delivery- FT- Nights- 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. Working at this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical, and business professionals across all disciplines.
The Labor & Delivery unit at Pennsylvania Hospital seeks a Full‑Time Night shift Clinical Nurse 2. The unit provides holistic, family‑centered services to the childbearing population of the Tri‑state area (Central and Southern New Jersey, Northern Delaware, Greater Philadelphia and suburbs) and is a Level III tertiary care facility located on the third floor of the Preston Building.
The Clinical Nurse 2 colleague practices as a full partner on the health care team, demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model, and independently provides patient care through the nursing process while accepting accountability for assigned patients ranging from infancy to elderly.
Responsibilities
- Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse 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: The nurse 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.
- Leadership: The nurse 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: The nurse 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.
- Professionalism: The nurse 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.
- Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
- Technology/Informatics: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
- Teamwork: The nurse effectively 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.
Requirements
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required) – BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider per the American Heart Association.
- Registered Nurse - PA (Required) – Pennsylvania RN licensure.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required).
- Education Specialization: BSN from an accredited school of nursing.
- Equivalent Experience: More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable.
Benefits
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.
Schedule
Full‑Time Night shift.