Registered Nurse - Specialty Hospital

JOB SUMMARY

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Uses nursing process as a framework to deliver care:
  • Assesses patient condition on admission and at regular intervals during assigned shift
  • Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members
  • Delegates basic patient care needs to assistive personnel
  • Sets goals to organize assignment
  • Collaborates with patients and their families on the patient’s desired goals
  • Audits aggregate performance in order to improve systems that support patient care
• Establishes a compassionate environment:
  • Provides emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
• Promotes patient's independence:
  • Teaches patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, safety, and self-care skills
  • Answers questions
• Maintains quality of care:
  • Adheres to therapeutic standards
  • Makes or recommends necessary adjustments
  • Follows hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care
• Maintains safe and clean working environment:
  • Complies with procedures, rules, and regulations for safety and infection control
  • Keeps patient rooms in a neat and orderly fashion
  • Cleans assigned equipment or areas according to procedure
  • Adheres to medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
• Respects patients and the organization:
  • Recognizes patient rights, patient privacy
  • Keeps information confidential and responds to requests using tact and diplomacy
• Maintains operation of equipment:
  • Completes preventive maintenance requirements
  • Follows manufacturer's instructions
  • Troubleshoots malfunctions
  • Processes requisitions for repair
  • Maintains equipment inventories
  • Evaluates new equipment and techniques
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge:
  • Attends educational workshops
  • Reviews professional publications
  • Establishes personal networks
  • Participates in professional societies
  • Maintains current BLS and ACLS affirmations
  • Attends required annual in-services
  • Documents professional development on associate education record
  • Conducts annual learning session in collaboration with the patient care specialist
  • Identifies learning needs and seeks professional improvement
• Demonstrates financial accountability:
  • Checks stock to determine inventory level
  • Anticipates needed supplies and places and expedites orders for supplies
  • Verifies receipt of supplies
  • Uses equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• Contributes to organizational team effort:
  • Communicates information
  • Responds to requests
  • Buils rapport
  • Participates in team problem-solving methods
  • Completes assignments by specified deadline
  • Assists in evaluating improvements and aggregate performance according to standards
• Maintains cooperative relationship among health care teams:
  • Accomplishes related results as needed
  • Follows through on delegated tasks
  • Responds to coworkers' requests for assistance
  • Demonstrates behaviors as defined by the GSSH code of conduct
  • Acts as a resource and/or leader when the need arises
  • Documents and communicates actions, irregularities, and continuing needs
• Promotes the development of Good Shepherd as a system:
  • Promotes the positive image of Good Shepherd
  • Communicates performance outcomes and results
  • Responds to change in a constructive and positive manner

QUALIFICATIONS

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education:
• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• Work Experience:
• Previous acute care experience preferred
• Licenses / Certifications:
• Registered Nurse license required
• Certification in Progressive Care Certified Nurse (PCCN) preferred (must be acquired within 2 years of employment, 1750 hours in direct care of acutely/ critically ill patients, with 875 of those hours accrued in the most recent year preceding application).
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
• Must obtain ACLS within six (6) months of employment and then maintain certification throughout employment.