Registered Nurse RN - LDRP - PRN Plan A - Shift Varies

About the role

Habersham Labor and Delivery, Recovery and Post-Partum Unit provides care to women and infants seeking treatments including laboring patients, scheduled inductions, scheduled cesarean sections, obstetrical emergencies, and post-partum recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.
• Consistently provides feedback for improved clinical practice.
• Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process.
• Is a professional member of VOICE professional nursing shared governance providing feedback on issues being addressed at meetings.
• Participates as a member on VOICE councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.
• 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.

Requirements

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Education: Associates Degree.
• Experience: One year of experience as a professional RN. New graduate RNs or those with less than one year of experience will be referred to the RN Residency Program.

Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: National certification in clinical specialty.
• Education: Bachelor of Nursing Degree.

Skills

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines.
• Active communication with patients, families and colleagues at all levels.
• Effective prioritization, problem-solving, and utilization of evidence-based practice.
• Personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegation, and support of NGHS shared governance model.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit.

Benefits

• Physical Demands: Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time; Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, 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.

Pay

Negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Varies based on departmental needs.