Clinical Nurse III

About the role

Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting at UNC Health Nash, an affiliated member of the UNC Health system. Join an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates dedicated to improving the health and well-being of unique communities across Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson Counties, and beyond. Contribute to a team committed to excellence, compassion, and innovation, ensuring every individual receives the highest standard of care through state-of-the-art facilities and pioneering programs.

Responsibilities

• Education
  • Identifies and meets learning needs of self.
  • Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
  • Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population with assistance.
  • Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
  • Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Evaluation of Care
  • Identifies expected patient outcomes.
  • Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
  • Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
  • Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Implementation
  • Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects of care.
  • Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
  • Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivery of care.
  • Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
  • Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Leadership
  • Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations with assistance.
  • Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
  • Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
  • Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
  • Effectively uses communication systems.
  • Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
  • Gives feedback to co-workers.
  • Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the healthcare environment.
  • Promotes a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment for all.
• Patient Assessment
  • Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
  • Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education, and safety needs.
  • Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
  • Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
  • Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Planning
  • Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
  • Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
  • Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
  • Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
  • Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Research
  • Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
  • Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Requirements

• Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
• One (1) year of nursing experience.

Schedule

Full-time, 36 hours per week, night shift.