Registered Nurse Flex KidStreet

About the role

The Clinical Nurse (CN) Flex provides Family-Centered Care by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. The role assumes an active part in the clinical education of patients, families and staff, functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise to deliver optimal health care. The CN Flex uses data to monitor care outcomes, applies improvement methods to test changes, minimizes risk of harm, and leverages information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

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.
• Deliver patient- and family-centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care.
• Anticipate changes in patient outcomes and unit needs in the provision of care; care is guided by the Professional Practice Model across the continuum.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of care plan implementation, evaluation, and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team.
• Initiate and anticipate individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
• Apply communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care; present own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
• Collaborate with team members in shared decision-making.
• Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Identify key concepts of research and evidence-based practice; participate in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognize and communicate the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation; recognize the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and/or association.
• Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and apply improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Utilize outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions; participate in quality improvement activities and use quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance; utilize and discuss policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
• Communicate observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
• Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making; recognize and apply information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Navigate and document in the EMR to support patient care.
• Support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending influence to professional and community groups.
• Work within scope of practice and delegate according to Nurse Practice Act; participate in professional governance activities; seek opportunities to participate in professional development activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees: Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Experience: One (1) year of nursing experience. Equivalency: Associate's degree in Nursing plus two additional years of experience may substitute for BSN.
• Licenses & Certifications: Basic Life Support; Registered Nurse
• Additional Requirements: BLS/CPR with at least six (6) months left before expiration; RN License from multistate compact.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package including base pay and incentives.
• Paid sick leave and a robust wellness program.
• Annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance; if goals are met, the bonus is paid the following April.
• Annual base pay increases for eligible team members based on performance over the previous year.

Pay

Hourly Rate of Pay: $49.10 (pay is dependent on applicant’s relevant experience).

Schedule

Flexible schedule; expectation of hours is 0700–1730.