Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department - FT Nights

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.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a charge nurse and ensures appropriate patient care is provided in a cost effective, quality driven and patient focused manner
• Serves on teams and leads teams as a part of daily practice
• Participates in 1 NGMC committee/council
• Role models healthy work environment behaviors and practices that include fostering trust among co-workers, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for one another
• Serves as a role model for the unit in incorporating national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
• Role models communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient’s condition to physicians, advanced practice providers and other colleagues; effectively incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• If applicable, participates in at least one Advanced training skill not required of all registered nurses on the unit