RN Clinical Nurse II - Spine Center

About the role

The UNC Hospitals Spine Center is seeking compassionate, motivated, and collaborative Clinical Nurses to join our growing multidisciplinary team. Located in an off-site clinic with free employee parking, the Spine Center provides comprehensive, patient-centered spine care through close collaboration among neurosurgeons, orthopedic spine surgeons, physiatrists, advanced practice providers, nursing, rehabilitation specialists, radiology, and support staff.

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.
• Evaluates care with guidance as needed.
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity 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 and achieves goals within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Uses communication systems effectively.
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• 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 containing studies or articles applicable to practice.
• Buys 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.
• 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 containing studies or articles applicable to practice.
• Buys ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

Day

Location of Job

US:NC:Chapel Hill