Registered Nurse - Primary Care - MUSCP

Job Description Summary

Under general supervision, the Registered Nurse 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.
• Delivers patient/family centered care focusing on physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs.
• Performs assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation of goals and interventions in accordance with policies of MUSC.
• Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment by ensuring patient privacy and maintaining respectful, accepting, and professional behavior.
• Participates in a professional practice model, shared governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice, and accountability for actions and critical thinking.
• Coordinates the delivery of patient care services through care management principles, identifies clinical priorities, and initiates actions to improve patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates ongoing participation in a professional practice model, promotion of a healthy work environment, and acceptance of personal responsibility for professional growth.

• Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or Nursing License Compact.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

• Current South Carolina RN License or multi-state Nursing License Compact and BLS required.
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required.

Continuous requirements are to perform job functions while standing, walking and sitting. Ability to bend at the waist, knee, climb stairs, reach in all directions, fully use both hands and legs, possess good finger dexterity, perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders, reach in all directions. Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required. Maintain 20/40 vision corrected, see and recognize objects close at hand and at a distance, work in a latex safe environment and work indoors.

Frequently lift, lower, push and pull and/or carry objects weighing 50 lbs (+/-) unassisted, exert up to 50 lbs of force, lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. Infrequently work in dusty areas and confined/cramped spaces.

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