Registered Nurse RN - Heart Failure Unit

Registered Nurse RN – Heart Failure Unit – Full Time Days

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Location: Gainesville, GA
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Today
Job requisition : R24909

Job Category: Nursing – Registered Nurse
Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Morning – Evening

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.

Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.

Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

• Transformational Leadership
• Serve as a highly engaged partner on the care team and respond willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
• Adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility.
• Lead interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
• Positively impact the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization.
• Demonstrate competence in RN I performance expectations and effectively apply the nursing process within the organization’s professional model of care.
• Continuously seek formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within the specialty area.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical, and spiritual issues within the episode of care.
• Effectively delegate care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with all healthcare team members, including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporate Safety behavior and error prevention tools.
• Incorporate Sister Simone Roach’s 7 Cs of Caring (Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity) into daily work and practice.
• Identify opportunities for quality improvement and apply evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice.
• Serve as a resource for students and demonstrate understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Model safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship; support unit‑based shared governance activities while on duty.
• Actively participate in unit‑based self‑care activities and continually evaluate work processes to achieve strategic initiatives.
• Achieve and maintain de‑escalation training certification as appropriate for the work unit.
• Support quality of care activities, evaluate nursing practice, and influence improvements in patient experience, employee engagement, and nurse‑sensitive indicators.

• Licensure or other certifications:
  Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Educational Requirements:
  
  Associate’s Degree (ADN) or Diploma required.
• Minimum Experience:
  
  At least 1 year of RN experience – demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN.
• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
  
  None specified.
• Preferred…