Registered Nurse ERT (TRH)

MISSION, VALUES and SERVICE GOALS

MISSION: We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.

VALUES: Trust. Respect. Integrity. Compassion.

SERVICE GOALS: Personally connect. Keep everyone informed. Be on their team.

Provides Professional Nursing Services

• Performs priority technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
• Establishes and/or revises priorities for job/patient care activities based on acuity, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, consideration for other department or staff priorities, timelines and plans.
• Responds to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individual's physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
• Advocates for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes.
• Maintains accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions. Bases actions and decisions on scientific principles/logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice/protocols, and organizational values.
• Sets aside supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently. Uses internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.

Information Sharing and Teamwork

• Develops or revises a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data.
• Initiates or maintains interventions to assure continuity of safe-effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.
• Modifies, continues or discontinues interventions, goals, or time frames, according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.
• Documents consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results and outcomes of interventions.
• Uses interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team in order to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved.
• Delegates to other staff members based upon acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, collective needs of patients, families and unit.

Maintaining Personal Competence and Organizational Responsibilities

• Maintains awareness of advances in clinical specialty.
• Contributes to the department's ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer focused-service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work.
• Follows through and completes other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.
• Contributes to the development of co-workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance and direct feedback.
• Complies with established organization and department policies.
• Available to work overtime in addition to working additional or other shifts and schedules when required.

Education and Experience

• The knowledge, skills and abilities as indicated below are normally acquired through the successful completion of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree and a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Michigan.
• Candidates hired after January 1, 2014, must have or obtain a BSN within five (5) years of employment as a Registered Nurse or will have the option to become certified in their area of specialty (unless grandfathered).
• The certification must be maintained based off of accrediting body standards.
• Demonstrates a high level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment and techniques.
• Demonstrates advanced analytical skills necessary to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care.
• Demonstrates the interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, patients, visitors, physicians and others.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a clear and concise manner.
• Requires an understanding of the need to be responsive and reasonably adaptable for scheduling purposes, when necessary, due to extenuating circumstances in support of co-workers and department functions.
• Requires the ability to work independently, take initiative and be self-motivated.