Registered Nurse RN - Medical Oncology - PT 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.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
• Transformational Leadership
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility
• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum
• Possesses exemplary professional practice
• Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• Communicates clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• Ensures improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning
• Serves as a resource for students
• Structural Empowerment
• Demonstrates an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
• Models safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship
• Supports unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
• Actively participates in unit-based self-care activities. Continually evaluate work processes with the goal of improvement, to achieve our strategic initiatives
• Achieves and maintains de-escalation training certification as appropriate for work unit
• Empirical Outcomes
• Supports in quality of care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• Serves as unit-based activities aimed at the ownership improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement

Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia
• Education: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required
• Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire