Registered Nurse Surgical Unit

Job Overview

Registered Nurse (Clinical Nurse 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 patient’s preferences, values, and needs. The role assumes an active role in clinical education of patients, families and staff and functions effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.

It integrates the best current evidence with clinical expertise for the delivery of optimal health care. The candidate uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and applies improvement methods to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. The Surgical Unit is a 72‑bed unit that serves a diverse patient population, providing complex care to patients from birth to early adulthood.

The unit offers world‑class care for trauma, solid‑organ transplant, burns, general surgery, plastics, urology, colorectal, bariatrics, neurology, neurosurgery, epilepsy monitoring, and more.

• Family‑Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Deliver patient and family‑centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence‑based care. Actively anticipate changes in patient outcomes and 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. Initiate and anticipate 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.
• Apply communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
• Present own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
• Collaborate 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.
• Identify key concepts of research and evidence‑based practice.
• Participate in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognize and communicate the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
• Recognize the 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.
• Utilize outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Participate in the quality improvement activities and use quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
• Safety:
  Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Utilize and discuss policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
• Communicate observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
• Informatics:
  Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making. Recognize and apply information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.
• Leadership:
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