Clinical Registered Nurse II-LGH D37 General Medical Unit-FT/7p-7a

Responsibilities

• Clinical - Assessment: 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.
• Clinical - Planning: Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan that incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from other disciplines, and standards of care. Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in collaboration with the patient, family, and healthcare team.
• Clinical - Intervention: Performs appropriate treatments and therapeutic nursing interventions as per the individualized plan of care. Recognizes potential problems and responds to urgent/emergent risks. Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as necessary. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to ensure appropriate patient care interventions.
• Clinical - Evaluation: Evaluates patient responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relation to established goals. Initiates changes to the interdisciplinary care plan based on evaluations. Solves problems with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes. Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing interventions, and progress towards problem resolution.
• Clinical - Patient Education: Identifies learning needs of patients/families and adapts standard information based on these needs. Ensures patients/families demonstrate knowledge of their care. Communicates with patients and families to identify their needs and involve them in the plan of care. Acknowledges and supports patients' and families' determinations about treatment.
• Self and Peer Learning: 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 participates in additional educational workshops. Reviews nursing professional publications. Establishes personal networks. Participates in professional societies.
• Clinical Leadership: Assumes responsibility for managing a patient assignment. Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity. Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel. Works with interdisciplinary team members to ensure appropriate care.
• Service Recovery: Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations. Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely, and consistent manner.
• Resource Utilization and Stewardship: Supports organizational efforts regarding appropriate resource utilization. Serves as a preceptor/mentor and assists in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
• Improvement Activities: Participates in data collection for quality assurance activities if assigned by department leader. Identifies and communicates recurring practice concerns in specialty areas and their impact on care. Participates in initiatives resulting from nurse-sensitive, quality, and other specialty indicators or unit-based quality metrics.
• Ethics: Maintains confidentiality in matters as outlined in Centra policies. Delivers care in a manner that protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights. Serves as a patient advocate. Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing. Bachelor of Science – Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• Minimum: One year of nursing (RN) experience.
• License: Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Additional Specialty Requirements: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required after hire date according to department standards. Other certifications may be required based on specialty area.