Registered Nurse (RN), PACU, Full-time, Second Shift, ONA

At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering. As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for our community and patients from all over the world. Join our team to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.

Location: Cincinnati, OH, United States

Qualifications

• Required: Associate Degree from an accredited school of Nursing (ASN)
• Preferred: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited school of Nursing (BSN)
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Ohio
• Current BLS/ACLS/PALS per department requirements based on patient population needs (see department standards for additional certification and licensure requirements)
• For employees working in UCMC Psychiatric Services, NCI-APS (Nonviolent Crisis Intervention with Advanced Physical Skills) Certification must be obtained within 90 days of hire
• No experience required

Responsibilities

Patient Population (Clinical Only)

• Engages in population-appropriate communication
• Has knowledge of growth and development milestones and tasks
• Gives clear instructions to patients/family regarding treatment
• Involves family/guardian in the assessment, initial treatment, and continuing care of the patient
• Identifies any physical limitations of the patient and deploys intervention when necessary
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to patients/families with behavioral health problems
• Interprets population-related data and plans care appropriately
• Identifies and responds appropriately to different needs resulting from unique psychological needs or those associated with religious/cultural norms
• Performs treatments, administers medication, or operates equipment safely
• Recognizes and responds to signs/symptoms of abuse or neglect

Clinical Judgment

• Clinical reasoning coupled with nursing skills acquired through experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines
• Collects basic-level data
• Follows protocols with all populations and does not deviate from them
• Matches formal knowledge with clinical events to make decisions

Advocacy (Moral Advocacy)

• Works on another's behalf and represents the concerns of the patient/family and nursing staff
• Serves as a moral agent in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns
• Works on behalf of patients
• Makes ethical/moral decisions based on rules
• Represents patient when the patient cannot represent self
• Aware of patient's rights
• Maintains patient confidentiality

Caring Practices

• Nursing activities that create a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients and staff, including vigilance, engagement, and responsiveness of caregivers
• Focus on the usual and customary needs of the patient at present
• Base care on standards and protocols
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching the patient/family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions
• Maintain a safe physical environment
• Acknowledges death as an outcome

Collaboration

• Works with others (e.g., patients, care providers) to encourage each person's contribution toward achieving optimal patient goals
• Willing to be taught and mentored
• Participates in discussion regarding patient care and/or practice issues
• Maintains cooperative relationships with the multidisciplinary care team, remains open to team members' contributions

Systems Thinking

• Body of knowledge that allows the nurse to manage environmental and system resources that exist for the patient, family, and staff within or across healthcare and non-healthcare systems
• Uses a basic array of strategies
• Limited outlook—sees the pieces or components
• Recognizes negotiation is a limited alternative
• Sees the patient/family within the isolated environment of the unit
• Sees self as a key resource

Response to Diversity

• The sensitivity to recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into the provision of care—includes cultural differences, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values
• Provides care based on own belief system
• Learns the culture of the healthcare environment

Facilitation of Learning

• Facilitates learning for patients/families, nursing staff, and community, including formal and informal learning
• Follows planned educational programs
• Sees patient/family education as a separate task from delivery of care
• Provides data to increase the patient's understanding
• Has basic knowledge of the totality of education needs
• Focuses on a nurse's perspective and sees the patient as a passive recipient

Clinical Inquiry (Innovator/Evaluator)

• The ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice and providing informed practice—creates practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning
• Follows standards and guidelines
• Implements clinical changes and research-based practices developed by others
• Recognizes the need for further learning to improve patient care
• Recognizes obvious changing patient situations (e.g., deterioration, crisis)
• Needs and seeks help to identify patient problems