RN II CVICU Day Shift

About the role

RN II CVICU position at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously provides safe and effective patient and family centered care for patients and families.
• Analyzes, thinks critically, prioritizes, and organizes care, makes appropriate clinical judgments, and efficiently manages routine and unexpected clinical situations.
• Provides a competent level of understanding and application of the AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care.
• Consistently provides safe and effective nursing care at a competent level.
• 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 assesses patients and provides 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.
• Advances evidence-based nursing practice using best available evidence, patient’s and family’s preferences and values, and team’s clinical expertise at a competent level.
• 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 AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care.
• Ability to analyze information and 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 communicate and collaborate by meaningful clinical documentation, completes hand-offs and participates in rounds and team meetings.
• Ability to provide individualized patient and family education at competent levels.
• Ability to assess patient and family learning needs and develop appropriate education plans.
• Ability to document all patient and family education activities and facilitate comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching.
• Ability to advance evidence-based nursing practice using best available evidence, patient’s and family’s preferences and values, and team’s clinical expertise.
• 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 participate 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.
• Ability to initiate advocacy actions for patients, families and AC team as needed.
• Ability to participate in councils, committees, taskforces and hospital initiatives, onboarding, recruitment, and retention activities.
• 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 job posting.

Schedule

This position has a Day Shift schedule with three 12-hour shifts per week.