Registered Nurse ED

Duties & Responsibilities

• Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence based care.
• Anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team.
• Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
• Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
• Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
• Collaborates with team members in shared decision making.

Evidence Based Practice

• Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
• Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
• Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.

Quality Improvement

• Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Participates in the quality improvement activities and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.

Safety

• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
• Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.

Informatics

• Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.

Leadership

• Nurses support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending their influence to professional and community groups.
• Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
• Participates in professional governance activities.
• Sets and achieves personal and professional goals.