Clinical Nurse II, CVOR

Overview

Company:
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. We combine advanced technologies and breakthroughs with family-centered care and provide caregivers with continuing education and state-of-the-art facilities.

Job

The Cardiovascular operating room surgical Registered Nurse provides specialized patient care in a pediatric cardiovascular surgical setting in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice and the organization’s policies, values, and mission. The RN is committed to providing the highest level of care intraoperatively while maintaining a safe environment, optimizing outcomes, and maximizing resources.

The Clinical Nurse II is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Clinical Nurse II independently provides patient care through the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients, age range from infancy to adult. The nurse demonstrates in core competency areas:
Patient and Family Centered Care, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Safety, Continuous Quality Improvement, Teamwork, Technology/Informatics, Professionalism, and Leadership. The nurse collaborates with the inter-professional health care team to coordinate care across the continuum and adapts care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations. The nurse seeks feedback and aligns practice with the organization’s vision, mission, and goals, and complies with regulatory and accrediting standards.

The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed. They are not a comprehensive inventory of duties. Employees may perform other duties as assigned.

Must comply with Joint Commission requirements and hospital policies, including Service Standards and Code of Conduct.

• Performs all the functions of Clinical Nurse I
• Patient and Family Centered Care:
  Recognizes the patient (or designee) as the source of control and partner in care; supports preferences, values, and needs.
• Maintains complex patient care assignments appropriate to skill level; participates in consensus-building and conflict resolution; demonstrates big-picture thinking.
• Engages in problem solving to address complex issues for safer, high-quality, patient- and family-centered care; ensures systems support patient-centered care.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research:
  Evaluates current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences; generates clinical questions and applies evidence to practice.
• Safety:
  Minimizes risk through system effectiveness and individual performance; serves as resource for safety concerns; analyzes errors for system improvements.
• Continuous Quality Improvement:
  Uses data and QI methods to identify opportunities to provide safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable care.
• Teamwork:
  Engages in cooperation and collaboration within inter- and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• Technology/ Informatics:
  Uses information and technology to support decision making, documentation, coordination, and patient privacy.
• Professionalism:
  Commits to nursing ethics, ongoing learning, and professional development.
• Leadership:
  Applies innovative, systems thinking for evidence-based problem solving and changes within the care delivery system.

Any combination of education and experience likely to provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities, plus required licenses/certifications.

• Education: Graduate from an accredited nursing program. BSN preferred.
• Experience: 2 years as an Operating Room RN, Scrub and Circulate. Pediatric experience preferred.
• License/Certification: Pediatric Advanced Life Support (AHA) within 90 days or RQI Healthcare Provider Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Registered Nurse license (CA). Basic Life Support (AHA) or RQI Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support.

These attributes are required to perform essential functions and are demonstrated through qualifying experience, education, or licensure/certification.

• Skill requirements as described in the position addendum; proficiency with clinical equipment and technology.
• Ability to manage resources, support supervision of unlicensed assistive personnel as defined by the California Nurse Practice Act and policies.

The physical requirements and working conditions are available from the Occupational Health Department. Reasonable accommodations available.

• Person and Family Centered Care:
  Focus on patient and family preferences in plan of care.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research:
  Integrates current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family values.
• Safety; CQI;
  Teamwork;
  Technology/ Informatics;
  Professionalism;
  Leadership;
  References: QSEN-aligned competencies.

Compensation is based on role requirements and may be…