RN Clinical Nurse II-Staffing Response Team Acute Medicine/Surgery

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 on the Rex Staffing Response Team.
• Identifies expected patient outcomes and participates in discussions with interdisciplinary teams in evaluating patient care.
• Evaluates and communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Demonstrates competence in caring for patients with complex problems, including addressing physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects of care.
• Performs bedside point-of-care testing as required for the patient care plan.
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivering care.
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely manner regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, and those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Develops and achieves goals related to professional growth or minimizing limitations, and participates in developing and achieving unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Communicates effectively using various communication systems to convey planning and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in patient care.
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care and 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 patients/families to prepare or update the plan of care, utilizes available multidisciplinary resources in planning care, and 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 that may be applicable to practice and brings 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 nursing experience.