PPMC Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Clinical Nurse II (PT)– Cupp 3 East

About the Role

3 East is a 32-Bed unit specializing in cardiac surgery and cardiology medicine. The unit cares for patients with Acute Cardiovascular disorders frequently requiring remote telemetry monitoring, in a Progressive Care Unit environment. These include, but are not limited to, the following patient groups: Acute MIs, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Edema, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), Arrhythmias, Post-open-heart surgery (OHS), post endovascular procedures, post cardiac catheterization patients, s/p pacemaker and ICD insertion, Valvular Heart Disease, and medical/surgical overflow.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The role independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients ranging in age from infancy to the elderly.

Responsibilities

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague demonstrates competency in the following professional practice 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 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 in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum and focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned patients. The nurse seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice, demonstrating how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals.

Requirements

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS/CPR) as a healthcare provider per the American Heart Association (Required).
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in Pennsylvania (Required).
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing (Required).
• More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience.
• Completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable.

Benefits

Penn Medicine offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits program, including one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.