Clinical Nurse II - FT Days- PPMC Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology – Cupp 3 East

About the role

3 East is a 32-bed unit specializing in cardiac surgery and cardiology medicine. The unit cares for patients with acute cardiovascular disorders frequently requiring remote telemetry monitoring in a Progressive Care Unit environment. Patient populations include, but are not limited to: acute MIs, heart failure, pulmonary edema, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), arrhythmias, post-open-heart surgery (OHS), post endovascular procedures, post cardiac catheterization patients, s/p pacemaker and ICD insertion, valvular heart disease, and medical/surgical overflow.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN who practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. This role independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients, who may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The nurse works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate coordination of care across the continuum, focusing on expanding knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations.

Responsibilities

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague demonstrates competency across the following professional practice domains:

• 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 the delivery of 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 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: 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: 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 the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to provide for 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 relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

Benefits

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