Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department ED - Weekend Sat-Sun-Mon

Overview

Job Category:
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.

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia. Current National Professional Certification required.

• Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree. ADN or Diploma required.

• Minimum Experience: ADN with 5 years of experience. BSN with 3 years of experience. Demonstrated competence in RN II performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire. NGHS Classes attendance required:
  Clinical Preceptor Course, DPM Huddle Facilitation Class, Charge Nurse Development Course (ANPD Frontline Nurse Leader Program.)

• Other:

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications:

• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
  
  BSN

• Preferred Experience:

• Other:

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines

• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect of others and fosters customer service

• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice

• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model

• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

• Transformational Leadership Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:

• • Serves as a charge nurse and ensures appropriate patient care is provided in a cost effective, quality driven and patient focused manner

• • Serves on teams and leads teams as a part of daily practice

• • Participates in 1 NGMC committee/council

• • Role models healthy work environment behaviors and practices that include fostering trust among co-workers, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for one another

• Exemplary Professional Practice Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:

• • Serves as a role model for the unit in incorporating national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction

• • Role models communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient’s condition to physicians, advanced practice providers and other colleagues; effectively incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools

• • If applicable, participates in at least one Advanced training skill not required of all registered nurses on the unit

• • Role models Sister Simone Roach’s theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring:
  Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice

• New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement Demon…