FT Ambulatory OR Nurse 2- Radnor

About the role

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN who practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. This role independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients, who may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The nurse works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate coordination of care across the continuum, focusing on expanding knowledge and skills to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles, provides feedback for improved clinical practice, demonstrates how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals, and complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.

Responsibilities

• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research: Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Leadership: Effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Person and Family Centered Care: Recognizes the patient (or the patient's designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization, and advancing community outreach.
• Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Technology/Informatics: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: Effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to provide safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Requirements

• Credentials:
  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS/CPR) as a healthcare provider per American Heart Association (Required)
  • Registered Nurse - Pennsylvania licensure (Required)
• Education: Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required); BSN from an accredited school of nursing (Required)
• Experience: More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and benefits program including one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Programs help employees get healthy and stay healthy.