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About the role

Participates with the Health Care Team in delivering quality health care to patients in a manner which reflects Kaiser Permanentes mission, vision, and values while supporting the Labor Management Partnership (LMP) principles and practice. Participates in creating a high-performance culture based on a joint decision making process. Provides support and assistance to the patient and Health Care team to promote population-based care, continuity of care, customer satisfaction, and self-care. Demonstrates strong interpersonal and communication skills with a caring, courteous, flexible, supportive, respectful, open minded, appreciative attitude that is committed to a team environment. The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, directing, providing and evaluating the nursing care for patients during the inter-operative phase and coordinating care activities with other ASC professionals.

Responsibilities

• Professional Practice Standards of Performance.
• Complies with shift, unit and organizational policies and procedures including reliability and attendance standards.
• Monitors and takes corrective action to prevent recurring absences.
• Returns promptly from breaks and schedules them to provide adequate coverage.
• Restricts personal business to non-patient care areas during break times.
• Complies with Kaiser's Time Keeping Policy to accurately reflect productive time worked.
• Takes responsibility to keep informed of organizational policies and current information as provided by employer.
• Complies with contractual responsibilities related to work schedule.
• Participates in clinic and nursing Quality Assurance Programs.
• Maintains current knowledge and skill base with personal commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
• Utilizes professional communication techniques.
• Maintains confidentiality of all patient and organizational records. (HIPPA Standards)
• Promotes collaboration and professional interaction with the health care team.
• Promotes professional conduct, knows and complies with department Standards of Behavior. (group norms)
• Attends and constructively participates in staff meetings.
• Demonstrates awareness of new information posted in the communication notebook.
• Planning Standard of Performance:
• Utilizes assessment data when instituting plan of care.
• Nursing Plan of Care is sensitive to the developmental needs of the patient.
• Utilizes knowledge of type of procedure to plan for appropriate set up.
• Obtains and demonstrates the skills and knowledge needed to provide age-appropriate care to patients and families through education, training, and experience.
• Implementation Standard of Performance:
• Applies principles of correct body alignment in positioning and transferring patient.
• Organizes nursing activities in an efficient manner in both circulating and scrub role.
• Records and documents relevant information according to policy and procedure.
• Evaluation Standard of Performance:
• Demonstrates an ability to evaluate and document patient outcomes.
• Participates in unit quality assurance activities on a monthly basis.
• Safety Management Standard