Registered Nurse II-Health- Critical Care

Job Description Summary

Under general supervision, the Registered Nurse II provides individualized, goal-directed patient care to families and patients at the competent level utilizing the principles and practices of the nursing process; delivers safe and effective care and interacts with other members of the health care team to achieve desired results.

Entity
:
Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type
:
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
:
Regular

Cost Center
: CC000696 CHS - SMICU (Specialty Medical) 5E (Main)

Pay Rate Type
:
Hourly

Pay Grade
:
Health-28

Scheduled Weekly Hours
: 36

Work Shift
:
Rotating (United States of America)

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice. Provide patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs.

This includes providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of MUSC. Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model.

This includes participating in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking. Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles. Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes.

Demonstrates ability to function in a professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, promotion of a healthy work environment and acceptance of personal responsibility for professional growth.

Minimum Training and Education
:
Bachelor of Nursing degree preferred. RN staff hired on or after July 1, 2013 with an Associate or Diploma degree in nursing are required to be enrolled in an accredited BSN program within two years and successfully obtain a BSN degree within four years of the RN hire or reclassification date. Refer to policy A141 for more details. A minimum of one year of work experience as a registered nurse required.

Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations
:
Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state. Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required.

Ability to perform job functions while standing (Continuous); while sitting (Continuous); while walking (Continuous); to climb stairs (Infrequent); to work indoors (Continuous); to work outside in temperature extremes (Infrequent); to work from elevated areas (Frequent); to work in confined/cramped spaces (Frequent); to perform job functions from kneeling positions (Infrequent); to bend at the waist (Continuous); to twist at the waist (Frequent);

to squat and perform job functions (Frequent); to perform manual pinch/grip actions (Frequent); to perform gross and fine motor activities with hands and fingers (Continuous); to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or both eyes; to see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance; to match or discriminate between colors; to determine distance/relationship between objects; to sustain good peripheral vision;

to maintain hearing acuity, with correction; to perform gross motor…