RN Clinical Nurse IV - Orthopedic Departments

Responsibilities

• 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 the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care.

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.
• Affords opportunity to set professional goals to assigned staff.
• 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.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) 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.