RN Clinical Nurse II PD - Critical Care Unit

About the role

The Critical Care Unit is an 18-bed, mixed acuity unit located on the Hillsborough campus. It provides care to adults of all ages within the surrounding community, focusing on patients with complications such as heart failure, substance withdrawal, sepsis, mechanical ventilation, respiratory disorders, and post-operative surgical patients.

Responsibilities

• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
• Reports and is accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
• 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.
• Affirms readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Affirms developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Evaluates care by identifying expected patient outcomes.
• Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
• Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient 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.
• 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.
• Affirms readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Plans care collaboratively with patient/family.
• 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.
• 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 relevant and current experience required.

Skills

• Knowledge of healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
• Ability to recognize and address cultural and ethnic issues in patient care.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

Rotating