Registered Nurse - Special Care Nursery - Part Time & Full-Time Positions

About the role

This position offers both part-time and full-time opportunities within the Special Care Nursery at Henry Ford Health Genesys in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The role involves providing comprehensive nursing care, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and adhering to clinical practice guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care that reflects a respect for patient’s rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs.
• Assess patient/family needs for information and education across the continuum, and plan and implement patient teaching using a variety of techniques and methods.
• Help to alleviate patient fears and anxiety through skillful application of professional and interpersonal communication.
• Utilize a variety of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to ensure patient comfort and relief of pain.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Complete admission assessment and shift assessment as required.
• Complete assessment for risk factors; initiate appropriate initiatives as indicated.
• Complete medication reconciliation upon admission and change in level of care.
• Establish, direct, coordinate, and document plan of nursing care in conjunction with patient/family.
• Initiate problems and outcomes list based on medical diagnosis and patient needs.
• Monitor, document, and report patient response to interventions and progress toward outcomes.
• Educate patient regarding treatment plan, safety measures, medications, and self-care as indicated.
• Work with Case Manager to ensure appropriate referrals initiated prior to discharge.
• Ensure that core measures Discharge Instructions are given to all CHF patients.
• Document patient care according to established documentation guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill application of basic nursing procedures.
• Implement/complete medical interventions as ordered. Initiate standing orders appropriately. Initiate and/or assists with all patient care activities including activities of daily living and provides other services as required for patient comfort, safety, and well-being.
• Assess and initiate interventions to prevent/minimize patient skin breakdown.
• Follow clinical practice guidelines and procedures as written.
• Establish and maintain peripheral IV therapy.
• Obtain body fluid specimens, per procedure.
• Obtains blood specimens if no phlebotomist assigned to area.
• Perform blood capillary glucose monitoring.
• Administer the following according to established policies and procedures:
• Medications.
• IVs.
• Blood products.
• Prepare patients for surgery or other invasive procedures according to established guidelines.
• Perform or assist with procedures according to established standards of care and nursing practice.
• Utilize equipment based on manufacturers instructions and established nursing procedure. Correctly operates and trouble shoots IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, patient beds, as applicable.
• Maintain a safe and physically safe environment for the patient including use and documentation of restraints according to policy.
• Communicate with other professionals/departments and physician staff to ensure appropriate progress of patients through the system.
• Maintain a healthy work environment by treating co-workers with respect, communicating with respect, resolving conflicts and/or negative feelings promptly, privately, and appropriately, and taking responsibility for personal actions, behaviors, and attitudes and not displacing anger or frustration onto co-workers, patients, or families.
• Support organizational, nursing department, and unit strategic goals and activities; participates in department and unit based council/staff activities meetings.
• Support and actively participates in Nursing Department and unit specific quality monitoring and quality improvement activities.
• Participate in teaching/mentoring of student nurses and orientates.
• Evaluate own performance utilizing input from peers, co-workers, managers, physicians, customers, and develops a plan for continual improvement.
• Complete yearly safety and unit specific education requirements (GLI).
• Provide input on appropriate patient care assignments; taking into consideration patient condition and knowledge/experience/work load of staff.
• Communicate appropriate patient care issues/concerns to nurse manager.
• Respond appropriately to changes in unit workloads, patient census, and/or staffing levels.

Qualifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Michigan Board of Nursing.
• Three (3) to nine (9) months on-the-job experience required for this position.