RN Clinical Nurse IV - Medical / Surgical Unit
Clinical Nursing Practice
Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork and exceptional service.
Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift.
Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Captures and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met.
Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
Education and Professional Development
Coordinates, designs and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients and families.
Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service and staff development offerings.
Serves as an area of specialty consultant in the design of educational programs.
Promotes and ensures professional growth of self and staff.
Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational experiences for students.
HR Management
Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff.
Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff.
Aids Nurse Manager by providing assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals.
Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues.
Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
Operational and Fiscal Management
Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities.
Ensures appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift.
Effectively uses clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals.
Collaborates with Nurse Manager to implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply and equipment resources.
Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
Aids Nurse Manager to ensure that internal and external regulatory standards are met or exceeded.
Research and Performance Improvement
Collaborates with Nurse Manager to evaluate research that is applicable to practice and promotes changes in standards of care as appropriate.
Guides research development and implementation.
Utilizes resources in asking research questions and applying appropriate research methods.
Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or other means.
Develops, implements and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals.
Leads, participates and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.
Pay and Benefits
Salary Range: $38.51 - $58.82 per hour (Hiring Range)