RN - CNICU (Full Time), St. Vincent

About the Role

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families. The Registered Nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on patient needs and the skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff, including assigning duties and lunches when performing charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues.
• Fosters a culture where risk-taking is safe and expected by willingly accepting mistakes of self and others.
• Participates on interdisciplinary teams to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives (e.g., evidence-based practice for population-specific care).
• Ensures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises, delegates, and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs as prescribed by physician, nurse, and hospital policy, including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
• Analyzes the health status of individuals and families, comparing data with norms when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Assesses patient reports/records for changes in condition, notifies physician and/or supervisor, intervenes appropriately, and documents accordingly.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than the primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks both formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Identifies areas of strength and areas where professional development would be beneficial.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Continuously evaluates and assesses patient and family satisfaction.
• Participates in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family-centered.
• Assesses for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within the established work shift.

Requirements

• Current State of PA RN licensure OR current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• CPR certification.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Qualifications

• Certification in area of specialty (preferred).