Per Diem RN Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinics

Responsibilities

• Provides safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families.
• Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings and record the related health data.
• Analyze and interpret recorded data. Make informed judgements as to the specific problems and elements of nursing care mandated by a particular situation.
• Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems, expected outcomes, and addresses preventative measures.
• Respects the values (religious/spiritual, ethnic, cultural) of the patient and family. Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient.
• Utilizes listening skills and clinical judgment in decision making to telephonically assess the severity of patient caller signs and symptoms.
• Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.
• Provides necessary physical care to appropriate patient populations which include ADL’s, positioning, transporting, and treatments.
• Utilizes and transports equipment.
• Maintains and recognizes acute changes in the patient and intervenes appropriately.
• Administers medications including blood and blood products.

Professional Relationship

• Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families.
• Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.
• Collaborates, cooperates and communicates with other healthcare providers to ensure quality and continuity of care.

Clinical Leadership

• Supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner’s Novice to Expert skills acquisition model.
• Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics.
• Demonstrates skills as a responsive team member.
• Demonstrates role of nurse as teacher.
• Demonstrates ability to fulfill role in regulatory compliance and readiness.
• Serve as patient advocate, within the limits of the law.

Clinical Scholarship

• Achieves clinical scholarship through experiences with patients, through collaboration with colleagues and leadership and through formal education.
• Learns are transformed into knowledge through self-reflection and analysis.
• Upholds standards of quality nursing care.
• Demonstrates a commitment to life long learning.
• Demonstrates evidenced based practice (EBP) in nursing.