RN Outpatient - Neurology - AGH - FT

About the role

The Registered Nurse provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting by striving to create and participate in the future of healthcare. They contribute to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring. They assign or delegate tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff.

Responsibilities

• Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues and cultivates a work environment that promotes positive employee attitudes, effective communications, trust, and collaboration.
• Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk taking is safe and expected, and creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability are key.
• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department specific quality initiatives (e.g., Evidence-Based Practice population-specific).
• Affirms appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to the individual needs of the patient as prescribed by physician, nurse, and hospital policy including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other health care providers.
• Analyzes the health status of the individuals and families comparing the data with the norm, when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit, and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks both formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Identifies areas of strength, as well as, areas in which professional development would be beneficial.
• Maintains and meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Plays a central role in everything they do by continuously evaluating and assessing patient and family satisfaction and performing as an advocate for patients and customers.
• Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family centered.
• Affords for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within established work shift.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Preferred: Certification in area of specialty.

Benefits

Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Pay

Details about pay will be provided upon interview.

Schedule

Details about schedule will be provided upon interview.

Contact Information

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