Job Description
Certification Details
- BLS
- North Carolina RN License
Job Details
- Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards.
- Responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
- Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self and attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
- Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population with assistance.
- Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers and developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
- Identifies expected patient outcomes and seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
- Participates in discussion with interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care and communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
- Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems including physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
- Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
- Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
- Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
- Consults with appropriate resources regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
- Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations with assistance.
- Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
- Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
- Effectively uses communication systems and participates in promoting cost-effective care.
- Gives feedback to co-workers and is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
- Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
- Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care including physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
- Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
- Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
- Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
- Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
- Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
- Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
- Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
- Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice and brings ideas and questions to the staff for assessment of applicability.
Job Requirements
- One (1) year of nursing experience.
- Required certifications include Basic Life Support (BLS).
- State licensure for North Carolina as a Registered Nurse.
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