RN Neuro Acute/Spine PRN

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

About the Role

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

Responsibilities

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence-based practice, uses analytical/critical thinking, and ensures that care is individualized; coordinates care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.
• Provides relationship-based patient-centered care consistent with population-specific characteristics (e.g., age, gender, disease, etc.) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity.
• Partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using methods such as bedside shift report, interdisciplinary rounds, just-in-time and planned patient teaching, keeping the patient and significant others updated, and making the patient's goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practices using current clinical practice standards.
• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model, including diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc.), completion of timely documentation, and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment.
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research, and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care, including initiating and/or leading such activities and promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process. Actively supports/participates in shared governance at all levels in the system.
• Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessments, required mandatory education, and population-specific education.
• Serves as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure a current and future qualified workforce; models the professional practice of nursing and creates a healthy work environment.
• Promotes evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement in nursing. Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products.
• Upholds all healthcare system/organizational policies and procedures, clinical competencies, legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements, including The Joint Commission (TJC) Patient Safety Goals and WellStar Health Systems safety absolutes.
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence-based practice, consults appropriate experts, and uses appropriate resources and evidence to address practice questions.
• Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care.
• Participates in the development of protocols and procedures in collaboration with care managers and other members of the healthcare team to achieve best practice outcomes (e.g., decrease in re-admission rates, avoidable days, adverse events).
• Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
• Performs other duties as assigned and complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in Nursing or Diploma in Nursing (required). Bachelor's degree in Nursing (preferred).
• Minimum 2 years of current experience in the specified area of practice.
• Computer/data entry experience (required).
• Epic and 3M experience (preferred).

Qualifications

• RN - Registered Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact (required).
• BLS - Basic Life Support, ARC-BLS - American Red Cross Basic Life Support, or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor (required).
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support, ARC-ALS - American Red Cross Advanced Life Support, ACLS-I - ACLS - Instructor, or ACLS-P - ACLS-Provisional (within 180 days).