RN Nursery Level II

Responsibilities

• Guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics.
• Practice professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.
• Record patients' medical history and symptoms, perform diagnostic tests, analyze results, operate medical equipment, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
• Establish a care plan or contribute to an existing plan, which may include administering medication, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing IV lines, administering therapies and treatments, observing the patient, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.
• Teach patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explain post-treatment and home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and therapy.
• Support efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precept new hire staff and students, assist staff and students to seek and complete competency skills, and enhance knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
• Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice, enhance knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations, collaborate with others in the practice of nursing professional development, assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care delivery, develop and evaluate standards of care for patients that are evidence-based, identify changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach, facilitate the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change, participate in and use evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes, design, create, and apply research by supporting the integration of research into practice, foster the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data, consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Requirements

• Possess the knowledge of how to collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritize data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs, and involve the family.
• Analyze the assessment data in determining diagnoses and utilize the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
• Develop plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, providing for continuity of care, and are family centered.
• Implement interventions in the plan of care, initiate treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures, provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery, evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form, provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost-effective high-quality healthcare.
• Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice, enhance knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations, collaborate with others in the practice of nursing professional development, assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care delivery, develop and evaluate standards of care for patients that are evidence-based, identify changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach, facilitate the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change, participate in and use evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes, design, create, and apply research by supporting the integration of research into practice, foster the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data, consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Diploma and ADN hires must Complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience (including direct patient care or indirect RN roles) at the time of hire.
• Required Associates or Diploma in Nursing.
• All staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements - PRIOR TO START.
• Required Bachelors in nursing (BSN).