RN - ICU (Full Time, Nights) St. Vincent

About the role

Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is a 9-hospital system, part of Highmark Health, transforming healthcare across the region. St. Vincent Hospital, a Magnet®-designated hospital since 1875, serves the Lake Erie region with a commitment to excellence in nursing.

The Intensive Care Unit is a 20-bed medical/surgical ICU offering CRRT and AHN TeleICU support. Typical diagnoses include pulmonary, GI, surgical, GU, post-partum, pregnancy (>20 weeks gestation), psychiatric, and renal conditions. The unit has earned the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

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

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in a professional practice setting
• Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on patient needs and skill level of RN, LPN, or support staff
• Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of intervention, and predictability of outcome
• Provides peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues
• Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture where risk taking is safe and expected
• Participates on interdisciplinary team 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., EBP population-specific)
• Assures 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 health status of individuals and families comparing data with norms to determine patient care needs
• Assesses patient reports/records change of condition, notifies physician and/or supervisor, intervenes appropriately, and documents accordingly
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency
• Demonstrates commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations
• Seeks formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others; identifies strengths and areas for professional development
• 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 within established work shift

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Current State of PA RN licensure OR current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)

Preferred:

• Certification in area of specialty

Requirements

• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• CPR certification