Clinical Nurse RN - Acute and Progressive Care Unit - Sharp Coronado Hospital - Night Shift - Full time

About the Role

What You Will Do To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Clinical advancement Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
• Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
• Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care.
• Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.
• Clinical judgment and decision making Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
• Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
• Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change.
• Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs.
• Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
• Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment.
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care.
• Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues.
• Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem oriented approach to patient issues.
• Clinical leadership Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated to each different health care team member.
• Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete.
• Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed (unsupervised, initial direction and periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or should not be delegated).
• Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.