Clinical Registered Nurse II-D25 Pediatrics-LGH-PT/7p-7a

Responsibilities

• Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing data collection based on the patient's immediate condition or needs within specified timeframes.
• Conducts ongoing assessments as needed and reprioritizes care based on patient's condition and policies, procedures, or protocols.
• Integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
• Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan which incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from the plans of other disciplines, and standards of care and practice.
• Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in consultation with the patient, family, and health care team.
• Performs appropriate treatments and therapeutic nursing interventions as established by the individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
• Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risks to the patient.
• Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as appropriate.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of a specialty patient population.
• Maintains a safe care environment for their patients (clients) and delivers quality care.
• Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
• Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on evaluation.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient care interventions are appropriate.
• Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
• Ensures that the patient/family demonstrates knowledge, within the abilities of the patient.
• Communicates with patients and family to identify their needs and includes them in the plan of care.
• Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
• Assumes responsibility for assessing and meeting own learning and professional development needs.
• Maintains current competency in nursing specialty and requirements for department; attends required educational programs and may attend additional educational workshops; reviews nursing professional publications; establishes personal networks; may participate in professional societies.
• Seeks additional educational opportunities for clinical development and is either ready to learn the charge nurse role or currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
• Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
• Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity.
• Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
• Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations.
• Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely and consistent manner.
• Serves as a patient advocate.
• Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing
• Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia.
• Basic Life Support certification
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification
• Cath Lab/Electrophysiology Operating Room Critical Care (All) Endoscopy PACU Interventional Radiology Birth Center Centra Specialty Hospital Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Plastic Surgery
• Registered Nurse Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
• One Year of Nursing (RN) Experience