RN Clinical Nurse II - Med Observation Unit - Weekends

About the role

The unit is known as 1 Memorial and consists of 25 beds. It operates 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and requires a great deal of interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. The team facilitates admissions, treatments, transfers, and discharges of patients and provides care to adult observation patients with various medical diagnoses such as cardiology work up, COPD exacerbation, intravenous therapy, and abdominal pain work up.

Responsibilities

• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Identifies expected patient outcomes.
• Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects of care.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivery of care.
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Promotes a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment for all.
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Bridges ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Requirements

• Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
• If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.

Qualifications

• One (1) year of nursing experience.

Skills

• Knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Promotes a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment for all.
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Bridges ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Benefits

No specific benefits are mentioned in the job posting.

Pay

$34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

Every Saturday and Sunday, every other Friday