Critical Care - IST $65 Premium Flat Rate (AHN Travel Team)

About the role

The AHN Internal Staffing Team (IST) is an Inpatient travel team that rotates to all AHN hospitals in Pennsylvania, including Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Valley Hospital, Canonsburg Hospital, Forbes Hospital, Jefferson Hospital, West Penn Hospital, and Wexford Hospital in the Pittsburgh metro area, and AHN Grove City and St. Vincent Hospital in Northwestern PA. The IST includes Registered Nurses working on one of three clinical teams: Critical Care Telemetry/Med Surg, Emergency Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues.
• Accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk taking is safe and expected.
• Participates on interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives (e.g., Evidence-Based Practice).
• Supervises and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs of the patient as prescribed by physician, nurse, and hospital policy.
• Analyzes the health status of individuals and families comparing the data with norms, when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Identifies areas of strength and areas in which professional development would be beneficial.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Continuously evaluates and assesses patient and family satisfaction.
• Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family-centered.
• Affords for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Works rotating shifts with 24/7 coverage and utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within established work shifts.

Requirements

• Minimum Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• CPR – American Heart Association
• Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• Preferred Certification in area of specialty
• 1 year of travel nursing experience
• 2 years of Critical Care RN experience

Qualifications

• Minimum Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• CPR – American Heart Association
• Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• Preferred Certification in area of specialty
• 1 year of travel nursing experience
• 2 years of Critical Care RN experience

Skills

• Leadership
• Mentoring
• Task delegation
• Safety maintenance
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Quality improvement
• Scope of practice supervision
• Nursing process utilization
• Health status analysis
• Competency acceptance
• Continuous learning
• Professional organization participation
• Peer review
• Self-assessment
• Time management
• Compassionate communication
• Concern resolution

Benefits

Rotating shifts with 24/7 coverage.

Pay

Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential. Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.

Schedule

Rotating shifts with 24/7 coverage.