Registered Nurse - Maternity-Nights

About the role

At Arnot Health, we are focused on delivering high-quality, safe, cost-effective, socially responsible health care services. The RN is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated timeframe and provides care to these patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/instrumentation, and other health care team members.

Responsibilities

• Nursing Process – Assessment
  • Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status of patients.
• Nursing Process – Diagnosis
  • Analyzes assessment data to determine appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Nursing Process – Outcome Identification
  • Identifies appropriate expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
• Nursing Process – Planning
  • Formulates a goal directed plan of care, which is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
  • Identifies patient/significant other learning needs and implements appropriate measures to meet these.
• Nursing Process – Implementation
  • Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent and continuous manner.
  • Performs documentation duties on unit and in patient record, which is timely, accurate and concise.
• Nursing Process – Evaluation
  • Evaluates effectiveness of self, care given by all health care team members, and contribution of systems, environment, and instrumentation in progressing patient toward outcomes.
• Quality of Care
  • Functions with an awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution.
  • Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
  • Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care and decision making for designated patient populations.
  • Follows all Medical Center, Division of Nursing and Unit specific Policy and Procedures.
  • Consistently incorporates hourly rounding into daily practice.
• Performance Appraisal
  • Demonstrates an awareness of self responsibility and accountability for own professional practices.
  • Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and unit function and strives to manage situations in a reduced risk manner.
• Education
  • Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and skills required by assigned unit.
  • Participates actively in staff development activities for unit and department of nursing personnel and other departments and personnel as appropriate.
• Collegiality
  • Formulates and uses effective working relationships with all health care team members, patients, and significant others.
  • Remains flexible in staffing patterns and resolution of staffing conflicts.
• Ethics
  • Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to patient/significant other rights, as identified within the institution.
  • Decisions and actions on behalf of patients are determined in an ethical manner.
• Research
  • Remains aware of current nursing research and implements findings in Nursing Practice as applicable.
• Resource Utilization
  • Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
• Core Values
  • Accountability: Accepts accountability for individual practice.
  • Caring and Compassionate Environment: Respects and recognizes each patient as a unique individual and provides holistic nursing care.
  • Collaboration: Collaborates with the patient, family and other health care providers in providing patient care.
  • Communication: Demonstrates effective communication methods and skills, using lines of authority appropriately.
  • Continuity of Care: Consistently identifies appropriate care plan and delivers care according to the plan of care.
  • Leadership: Demonstrates leadership ability; demonstrates appropriate delegation of tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and unit activities; practices effective problem identification and resolution skills as a method of sound decision making.
  • Learning Environment: Demonstrates self directed learning and participation in continuing education to meet own professional development; attends 75% of all staff meetings and 100% of all mandatory in-services; seeks validation of knowledge base, skill level, and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.
  • Participation in Decision Making: Participates in development and attainment of unit and Department of Nursing goals, along with Medical Center strategic plans and goals; participates in unit, Division of Nursing and Medical Center councils/committees as appropriate.
  • Quality Improvement: Participates in Quality Improvement initiatives and standards development; is familiar with and demonstrates Quality in Action principles and participates in the process as appropriate.
  • Age-Appropriate Care: Provides age-appropriate care to all patients according to their age groups for the particular unit to which the individual is assigned.
  • Customer Focus: Understands and demonstrates the importance of satisfying the needs of the customer/patient by interacting with him/her in a friendly and caring way, being attentive to the customer's needs, both psychologically and physically, and by taking the initiative to maintain communication with the customer in order to provide a secure and pleasant experience with the Medical Center.
• Employee understands that this job description lists typical duties for the classification and is not to be considered inclusive of all duties, which may be assigned.

Requirements

• Current NYS nursing licensure, limited permit or eligible.
• Excellent communication skills and writing ability.

Physical demands

Appreciable physical effort required; lifting, pulling, pushing, and moving patients of various size, capabilities and abilities. Some lifting, reaching, and stooping. Required to be on feet much of the time.

Exposure category

Category I: Tasks that involve exposure to blood and body fluid or tissues.