RN - Labor & Delivery Resource Pool

About the role

The Women & Children Resource Pool consists of 3 subset teams known as “Pods” (Labor & Delivery Pod, NICU Pod, and Mother Baby/Pediatric/Step Down NICU Pod). The team works within the Women & Children service areas of Northeast Georgia Healthcare System and will report to our Gainesville, Braselton, and/or Demorest (Habersham) locations. Each “pod” is specialized according to patient population and requires 2 years of RN experience specific to specialty of the pod.

Responsibilities

• Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills.
• Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.
• Sets as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice.
• Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process.
• Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.
• Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data.
• Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team.
• For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.
• Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes.
• Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Requirements

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
• Minimum Experience: At least 2 years of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN.
• Preferred Educational Requirements: Preferred Experience: Other.

Skills

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines.
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice.
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

12 Hr Evening - Morning