New to Practice RN for our Neuroscience Med Surg unit at the Clifton Center

About the Role

The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice is a newly licensed new-to-practice RN or RN with less than 15 months of experience that demonstrates basic safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. This role seeks guidance to integrate concepts, knowledge, skills, and attitudes to meet standards for competent professional nursing practice. The nurse exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies reflecting its mission and is embedded in the professional practice competency domains.

The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice is accountable for the provision of direct care to patients ranging in age from infancy to the elderly and demonstrates competency in Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Teamwork, and Technology/Informatics. The nurse works closely with the interprofessional healthcare team to facilitate coordination of care across the continuum and focuses on developing knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations.

The nurse requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and benefits from feedback while demonstrating growth in the ability to care for increasingly complex patients. The role impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals and complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies. The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice must complete all competencies and is expected to advance to the Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague level by 18 months of professional practice.

Responsibilities

Professional Practice Competency Domains:

• 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 healthcare 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.
• Teamwork: Effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Technology/Informatics: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.

Requirements

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS/CPR) certification as a healthcare provider per the American Heart Association (Required).
• Registered Nurse (RN) license in Pennsylvania (Required).

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited school of nursing (Required).
• Less than 15 months of professional nursing experience (Required).

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program, including one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.