RN II Cardiovascular ICU

About the role

This position is a full-time night shift role in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Responsibilities

• Provides a competent level of nursing practice to autonomously provide safe and effective patient and family centered care for patients and families.
• Uses knowledge, skill, and experience to analyze, think critically, plan, prioritize, and organize care, make appropriate clinical judgments and efficiently manage routine and unexpected clinical situations.
• Demonstrates a competent level of understanding and application of the AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care.
• Communicates and collaborates by meaningful clinical documentation, completes hand-offs and participates in rounds and team meetings to assure continuity of care and to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Competently assess patients and provide developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive care.
• Analyzes information to identify problems and outcomes, evaluates variations and patterns in patient/family data and recognizes implications to care.
• Develops, maintains, and applies the plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team, members.
• Identifies and competently and promptly responds to changes in patient condition.
• Provides individualized patient and family education at competent levels.
• Competently assesses patient and family learning needs and develops appropriate education plans.
• Consistently documents all patient and family education activities and facilitates comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching.
• Able to successfully search for and apply evidence to guide clinical practice.
• Evaluates own performance to identify areas of strength and needs for professional development.
• Participates in interdisciplinary shared decision making activities.
• Actively participates in the improvement of patient care, nursing practice and the work environment by identifying and providing feedback on areas of improvement, evaluating and implementing new equipment, products and technology, etc.
• Accountable for the quality of patient care by initiating advocacy actions for patients, families and AC team as needed.
• Participates in councils, committees, taskforces and hospital initiatives, onboarding, recruitment, and retention activities.
• Successfully guides individuals, groups and activities to achieve patient goals and positive outcomes.
• Participates in community activities which promote health and wellness.
• Competently mentors, coaches, and teaches healthcare professionals and students.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated performance of 100% at the previous level and score within documented RN II/III levels via ACHieve career ladder for internal employees.
• Nursing - 1 year of experience.

Skills

• Knowledge of the AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care.
• Ability to analyze information to identify problems and outcomes.
• Ability to develop, maintain, and apply the plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team, members.
• Ability to assess patients and provide developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive care.
• Ability to competently assess patient and family learning needs and develop appropriate education plans.
• Ability to consistently document all patient and family education activities and facilitate comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching.
• Ability to search for and apply evidence to guide clinical practice.
• Ability to evaluate own performance to identify areas of strength and needs for professional development.
• Ability to participate in interdisciplinary shared decision making activities.
• Ability to actively participate in the improvement of patient care, nursing practice and the work environment.
• Ability to initiate advocacy actions for patients, families and AC team as needed.
• Ability to participate in councils, committees, taskforces and hospital initiatives.
• Ability to successfully guide individuals, groups and activities to achieve patient goals and positive outcomes.
• Ability to participate in community activities which promote health and wellness.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and teach healthcare professionals and students.

Benefits

• Tobacco-free workplace policy.
• Flu vaccines are required.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the posted information.

Schedule

The position is a full-time night shift role, working from 7p-7a.