Registered Nurse II - MSICU

Overview

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.

• 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.
• 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, sharing governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and accountability.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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, sitting, walking (various frequencies).
• Ability to climb stairs; work indoors and outdoors in temperature extremes; work from elevated areas; work in confined/cramped spaces; kneeling, bending, twisting, squatting.
• Ability to perform pinching, gross motor, fine motor, and repetitive motions; reach overhead; lift and carry up to 50 lbs unassisted; push/pull tasks as described.
• Vision and hearing requirements with continuous or frequent acuity; depth perception and color discrimination.
• Ability to work rotating shifts and overtime as required; maintain a latex-safe environment; maintain tactile sensory functions.
• Select positions: maintain olfactory sensory function and respirator qualification as required.

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