Registered Nurse Neurology

Provides Family-Centered Care by recognizing the patient, family, and/or designee as a full partner in compassionate, coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Assumes an active role in clinical education of patients, families, and staff. Functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for delivery of optimal health care. Uses data to monitor outcomes of care processes and improvement methods to continuously enhance quality and safety. Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through system effectiveness and individual performance. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Family-Centered Care:
  • 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.
  • Actively anticipate changes in patient outcomes/unit needs in the provision of care, guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
  • Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of the care plan, evaluation of care, 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.
• Teamwork & Collaboration:
  • 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.
• Evidence-Based Practice:
  • 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.
• 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.
  • 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.
• Safety:
  • 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.
• Informatics:
  • 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.
• Leadership:
  • 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 the Nurse Practice Act.
  • Participate in professional governance activities.
  • Seek opportunities to participate in professional development activities.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Applicants with an Associate's Degree in Nursing who agree to obtain a BSN within three years from their start/hire date may be considered. Master’s Entry to Practice Nursing (MEPN) may substitute for a BSN.
• Experience: One (1) year of nursing experience.
• Licenses & Certifications:
  • Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) with at least six months left before expiration.
  • Registered Nurse (RN) License from a multistate compact.

Pay

Hourly range: $39.88 to $59.82, dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package including base pay and incentives.
• Paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company-provided life and disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 403b employer match (retirement savings).
• Robust wellness program.
• Access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to advance your career.
• Annual employee bonus program based on organizational performance (paid the following April if goals are met).
• Annual base pay increases based on performance over the previous year.

Schedule

• Full-time, 64 hours per pay period, benefit-eligible.
• 4 days a week, variable days with variable start and end times (0730-1730).
• No nights or weekends.

Department: Briargate Neurology Clinic