RN Peds

Shea Medical Center - 9003 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Shift: Night | Sign-on bonus available for 1+ years of experience

About the Role

The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served. The RN records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. The RN establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, teaches patients and their families how to manage illnesses or injuries, and provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care.

Responsibilities

• Collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs and involving the family.
• Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilize 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, including initiating 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 and document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure maintenance and enhancement of patient outcomes that promote 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, maintaining current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice and enhance knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations.
• Collaborate with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional, and state levels.
• Interact with and contribute to the professional development of peers and other healthcare providers through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs.
• Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery.
• Collaborate with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers in providing patient care.
• 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 and 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, fostering 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.
• Precept new hire staff and students, assisting them to seek and complete tasks required to complete competency skills.

Requirements

• All 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.
• Associates or Diploma in Nursing (required).
• Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) (preferred).
• Refer to the addendum for stroke-specific education requirements for staff with direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients prior to start.

Experience

• More than 10 months of med-surg or acute specialty setting experience (required).
• 1 year of RN experience for all Float Positions (required).

Qualifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (required).
• State and/or Compact State Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Arizona (required upon hire).
• National certification for unit-specific patient population (preferred).