Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department ED - Every Weekend - FT Days

About the Role

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Schedule

12‑hour morning‑evening shift.

Minimum Qualifications

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Associate’s Degree (ADN) or nursing diploma.
• At least 1 year of RN experience – demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN degree.
• Preferred licensure or other certifications (unspecified).
• Preferred experience (unspecified).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population‑specific guidelines.
• Effective communication with patients, families, and colleagues at all levels; shows consideration, respect, and fosters customer service.
• Prioritization, problem recognition, and utilization of evidence‑based practice.
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others; delegates appropriately and supports NGHS shared governance model.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on the unit.

Responsibilities

Transformational Leadership

• Serve as a charge nurse and ensure appropriate patient care is provided in a cost‑effective, quality‑driven, patient‑focused manner.
• Serve on teams and lead teams as part of daily practice.
• Participate in one NGMC committee/council.
• Role‑model healthy work‑environment behaviors, fostering trust, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for co‑workers.

Exemplary Professional Practice

• Serve as a role model for incorporating national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction.
• Model communication skills, articulating and translating the patient’s condition to physicians, advanced practice providers, and colleagues; incorporate safety behavior and error‑prevention tools.
• If applicable, participate in at least one advanced training skill not required of all registered nurses on the unit.
• Model Sister Simone Roach’s theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity.

New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement

• Seek opportunities to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team.
• Support continuous learning on the unit by sharing research material from professional journals and organizations.
• Actively participate in quality‑improvement activities and implement evidence‑based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice.
• Assist in facilitating unit‑based education, in‑services, and skills validation.
• Serve as a preceptor as needed for students, nurse residents, and experienced nurses.

Structural Empowerment

• Advocate for cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment; hold peers accountable for healthy relationships.
• Role‑model keen cultural intelligence, preventing and addressing lateral violence and impairment.
• Participate in unit‑based shared governance activities while on duty.
• Lead unit‑based self‑care activities.
• Practice tools and techniques to mitigate and minimize workplace violence.

Empirical Outcomes

• Serve as a unit‑based champion; complete unit‑based audits and provide data to management for follow‑up to achieve positive outcomes.
• Act as a super user.
• Participate in quality‑of‑care activities, evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Actively participate in unit‑based activities aimed at improving patient experience, employee engagement, and nurse‑sensitive indicators.

Physical Demands

• Weight lifted: up to 100 lb (occasionally 0‑30% of time).
• Weight carried: up to 50 lb (occasionally 0‑30% of time).
• Vision: moderate (frequently 31‑65% of time).
• Kneeling/stooping/bending: frequently 31‑65% of time.
• Standing/walking: frequently 31‑65% of time.
• Pushing/pulling: frequently 31‑65% of time.
• Intensity of work: frequently 31‑65% of time.
• Job requires reading, writing, reasoning, talking, keyboarding.