- JOB SUMMARY
- Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and intermultidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; delegate and evaluate care assigned to LPNs and CNAs to meet patient care needs.
- ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- IDENTIFIES PATIENT CARE REQUIREMENTS
- By establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
- Uses the nursing process as a framework to deliver care by establishing or contributing to a plan of care with the patient including a teaching plan, within 24 hours of admission
- Identifying nursing care needs, writing nursing interventions and identifying educational objectives appropriate to care standards
- ESTABLISHES A COMPASSIONATE ENVIRONMENT
- By providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- PROMOTES PATIENT'S INDEPENDENCE
- By establishing patient care goals
- ASSURES QUALITY OF CARE
- By adhering to therapeutic standards
- RESOLVES PATIENT PROBLEMS AND NEEDS
- By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
- DOCUMENTS PATIENT CARE SERVICES
- By documenting delivery of services, changes in the patient's condition and the patient's response to nursing interventions in the medical record according to policies and procedures.
- MAINTAINS PATIENT CONFIDENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONFIDENTIALITY
- By keeping information confidential.
- MAINTAINS SAFE AND CLEAN WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- By complying with procedures, rules, and regulations
- By maintaining compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care.
- By demonstrating knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation (i.e., code blue, Dr. Wintergreen, etc.).
- ENSURES OPERATION OF EQUIPMENT
- By following manufacturer's instructions
- DEMONSTRATES FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
- By checking stock to determine inventory level
- By minimizing overtime by work prioritization and delegation
- By identifying and providing input to Nurse Managers on work methods that reduce the cost and/or time required to deliver patient care.
- By maintaining awareness of unit budget.
- MAINTAINS PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
- By identifying personal educational needs and opportunities
- By maintaining responsibility for own professional development through active participation in in-services and/or continuing education programs.
- MAINTAINS A COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP AMONG HEALTH CARE TEAMS
- By communicating information
- CONTRIBUTES TO ORGANIZATIONAL TEAM EFFORT
- By arriving on duty as scheduled, maintaining attendance, punching in and out as per Good Shepherd policy and maintaining etime sheet.
- By demonstrating flexibility in response to change by offering to assist team members with patient care needs and unit activities that arise throughout the shift
- By attending meetings as requested by organizational leaders
- By mentoring channels of communication among nursing shifts, disciplines, departments, and external customers.
- By utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
- QUALIFICATIONS
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education
- Associate's Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
- Work Experience
- Prior med-surg experience or rehabilitation experience preferred
- Licenses / Certifications
- Registered Nurse license required
- Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
- Certification in Rehabilitation Nursing preferred (must be acquired with 3 years of employment)
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* by complying with procedures, rules and regulations
* by adhering to infection control policies and procedures, medication administration and storage procedures and controlled substance regulations.
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* attending unit meetings
* reading unit memos
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