Registered Nurse Orthopedics

Registered Nurse Orthopedics

Employer: Children's Hospital Colorado

The Clinical Nurse (CN) II provides Family-Centered Care as demonstrated by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs. The role assumes an active role in the clinical education of patients, families, and staff. The CN II functions effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.

It integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for the delivery of optimal health care, uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes, and employs improvement methods to test changes that continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. The lodged health provider minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance while using information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making.

• Family‑Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee encuent de source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence‑based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Function effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.
• Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
• Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussionsଇ/p>
• Collaborates with team members in shared decision‑making.
• Evidence Based Practice:
  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Identifies key concepts of research and evidence‑based practice.
• Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
• Recognโอthe standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.
• Quality Improvement:
  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Participates in the quality improvement activities and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
• Safety:
  Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
• Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
• Informatics:
  Use information正常 and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making.
• Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication miesz decision‑.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.
• Leadership:
  Nurses support organizational goals,…