Staff RN - Experienced Float - Inpatient - Weekend

At Children’s Nebraska, our mission is to improve the life of every child through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education. As the state’s only full-service pediatric healthcare center, we provide comprehensive, holistic care to our patients and families—from primary and specialty care to behavioral health services and everything in between. Dedicated to a People First culture, we foster an environment with joy, belonging, wellbeing, learning and growth.

Turn your passion into purpose and make a difference where it matters most. Children's is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

Job Description

Schedule:

7a-7p, Weekend program:
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday including Holiday rotation - 36hrs

Weekend Incentive: $10/hr

Hiring Bonus: $10,000

A Brief Overview

Coordinates professional nursing and individualized, family centered care to NICU/PICU/Med-Surg pediatric patients/families, through the use of the nursing process and clinical skills in accordance with standards and hospital policies and procedures. Varied schedules to include weekend and holiday patterns.

• Conducts individualized age-specific patient/family assessments according to defined unit scope and nursing practice standards, appropriate collaborative problems (CPG’s)/nursing diagnoses (ND’s), or protocols.
• Collects and documents data related to patient’s individualized care.
• Demonstrates age-specific competency in assessment of patients by the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patient needs, knowledge of growth and development, and understanding of the range of treatment needed by these patients.
• Assesses patient/family need for education and uses an individualized approach in delivery style.
• Assesses family expectations for, and involvement in the assessment and continuous care or treatment of the patient.
• Identifies nursing diagnoses, collaborative problems, and/or protocols for each patient, based on assessment, at the time of admission.
• Assess and interprets patient data upon arrival at the referring hospital.
• Shift Assessment/Reassessment:
  Performs reassessment based on unit standards, CPG’s/ND’s, protocols and changes in patient condition. Communicates changes to appropriate persons (MD, CNC, family) as indicated.
• Develops individualized patient/family plan of care using CPG/ND’s, and practice guidelines/protocols to meet identified needs.
• Utilizes assessment data from the healthcare team to individualize appropriate goals and actions for the patient, including collaboration with the family and the healthcare team.
• Utilizes individualized assessment data to develop the patient/family’s plan of care.
• Formulates goals and outcomes based on assessment data.
• Revises plan of care based on patient’s condition, interdisciplinary input, and family needs.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize patient interventions based on assessments/reassessments.
• Uses available child care partners to support patient care needs as appropriate.
• Implements and evaluates nursing actions in accordance with the individualized patient/family plan of care and patient condition/needs.
• Oversees that the nursing and interdisciplinary plan of care/goals are coordinated, implemented, evaluated, and revised as needed.
• Identifies the need for interdisciplinary involvement/outside resources and follows through.
• Uses appropriate resources (CNC, CNS/Educator, PCM, MD, etc) to ensure that clinical outcomes are achieved.
• Incorporates critical thinking into the delivery of clinical skills and in analyzing patient response to orders, tests, labs, medications, and treatments.
• Demonstrates clinical competence in administering interventions according to identified standards and age specific needs.
• Provides and/or coordinates with other disciplines patient/family education according to identified care needs, considering assessment of patient/family’s readiness to learn.
• Documentation reflects accurate assessment/evaluation, modification, and patient’s response to therapy, changes in condition, and therapeutic interventions/procedures.
• Entries in the medical record…