Experienced Clinical Nurse, Float Pool, Weekend Only, Full-Time, Nights and Days

About the role

The role of the professional clinical nurse is unique and essential to the care of the patient. The nurse demonstrates that unique and essential function through the framework for nursing practice.

Responsibilities

• Advocate: Practices in accordance with the patient centered care model
• Advocate: Develops an individualized age-specific culturally sensitive nursing plan of care for the patient that is based on the nursing process
• Advocate: Incorporates the role of patient advocate into the plan of care
• Advocate: Acknowledges and values the contributions of the patient’s significant others as an integral part of the plan of care
• Advocate: Identifies potential conflict situations and facilitates resolution using established communication channels
• Advocate: Promotes and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient
• Advocate: Protects patients by maintaining a safe environment
• Clinical Expert: Advances clinical expertise, as demonstrated through pursuit of informal and formal continuing education opportunities and obtaining specialty certification when eligible
• Clinical Expert: Continuously enhances skills and abilities to ensure the highest quality patient care
• Clinical Expert: Shares knowledge and expertise through educating team members, patients and students
• Clinical Expert: Demonstrates critical thinking by integrating theoretical knowledge and expertise to pose relevant clinical questions when evidence and practice differ
• Clinical Expert: Identifies priorities, sets realistic and measurable goals, prescribes and implements nursing interventions in a safe and timely manner
• Clinical Expert: Develops and implements individualized education plans for patients and families using suitable instructional materials and methods
• Clinical Expert: Evaluates and documents the patient’s responses to nursing interventions in the health record and properly individualizes the plan of care based on the evaluation of findings
• Clinical Expert: Identifies situations that require further intervention and escalates appropriately; Consults appropriate experts and resources when needed
• Clinical Expert: Participates in the formation, implementation and evaluation of team goals
• Clinical Expert: Appropriately delegates and supervises interventions to implement the plan of care
• Clinical Expert: Conveys complete, timely and accurate information at hand off at the bedside or any hand off
• Clinical Expert: Adheres to ethical standards of practice
• Community Volunteer: Participates in one or more volunteer initiatives annually, Northwestern Memorial organized or on his/her own
• Compassionate: Consistently demonstrates interpersonal connections with patients and families from introduction through discharge
• Compassionate: Proactively responds to patient concerns such as speaking to patients about possible/expected delays in plan of care
• Compassionate: Treats patients, families, visitors and staff in a caring manner with respect and dignity
• Compassionate: Facilitates facilities recovery and where appropriate helps ensure a peaceful death for patients
• Professionally Engaged: Is a member of a professional organization or participates on a Northwestern Memorial committee or taskforce at the hospital-wide, departmental, or unit level
• Professionally Engaged: Demonstrates accountability and collaborative practice with co-workers, other disciplines, and departments
• Professionally Engaged: Assumes responsibility for continued professional growth and education reflecting knowledge and understanding of current nursing practice
• Professionally Engaged: Serves as a community mentor for team members
• Professionally Engaged: Serves as a preceptor for new team members
• Professionally Engaged: Participates in the peer feedback process by conducting a constructive assessment and evaluation of peer performance
• Professionally Engaged: Works collaboratively with all hospital services to accomplish daily work and maintain an environment of excellence
• Professionally Engaged: Participates in the development of policies, procedures and systems to support safe and effective care and advance nursing practice at NMH through the Shared Leadership Process
• Professionally Engaged: Assumes personal responsibility for meeting internal (i.e., Best People profile, ELMs, CPR, and health requirements) and external regulatory and accreditation requirements
• Professionally Engaged: Identifies opportunities for innovation and quality improvement; participates in innovation projects and the quality improvement process, including unit-based quality committees
• Professionally Engaged: Demonstrates accountability to Northwestern Memorial strategic, operational and fiscal goals
• Professionally Engaged: Exemplifies a professional image in appearance and communications
• Professionally Engaged: Maintains and advances the professional image of nursing and the practice of professional nursing through an ongoing analysis of resources

Qualifications

• Graduate of an NLN accredited school/college of nursing
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing or higher
• Current State of Illinois, Registered Professional Nurse license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR through American Heart Association
• Analytic ability (conceptual and quantitative)
• Oral, listening and written communication skills
• Strong human relation skills to interact effectively and collaborate with others in difficult situations
• Use of a keyboard to enter or retrieve data

Additional Information

Northwestern Medicine is an equal opportunity employer (disability, VETS) and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status. Background Check Northwestern Medicine conducts a background check that includes criminal history on newly hired team members and, at times, internal transfers. If you are offered a position with us, you will be required to complete an authorization and disclosure form that gives Northwestern Medicine permission to run the background check. Results are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and we follow all local, state, and federal laws, including the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section to learn more.

Sign-on Bonus Eligibility

Internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within 1 year are not eligible for the sign on bonus. Exception: New graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position at NM may be eligible depending upon the job family.