Job Description
Job Description
Description : Purpose
Provides and directs safe, effective, and culturally-competent care for pediatric through aging adult patients with actual or potential medical health problems. Key accountabilities include assessments, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care using critical thinking and evidenced-based practice; adherence to the Professional Practice of Standards as defined by ANA; and active participation in performance improvement activities.
Essential Job Functions
Responsibilities and Duties
Requirements :
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Competencies
Supervisory Responsibility
Direction : The job requires some accountability for scheduling, assigning or coordinating work. Employees check the quality of work and provide guidance, instruction, training and direction to others. In addition, the employees may be expected to provide information or suggestions on human resources matter.
Materials Responsibility
Limited : Work requires limited responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include supplies, equipment, inventories, small budgets, and other similar material assists. The employee has a limited amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors is also limited in terms of damage, waste, or financial loss. Problem associated with material resources are not complex. The volume of resource may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is uncomplicated.
Key Relationships
Co-workers / JCRHC Employees. Outside Agencies / Other Health Care Providers, General Public / Visitors / Volunteers, Physicians / Medical Office Staff, Residents / Outside Instructors, Patients, Families, and Significant Others
Position Specifications
Education
Associates Degree
Field of Study
Nursing
Special Training
ACLS; BLS; PALS; Dependent Adult / Child Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training within timelines established in Licensure, Registration, Certification and Life Saving training policy.
Training Preferred
Baccalaureate in Nursing
Licensure / Registration
Registered Nurse in Iowa
Experience
N / A
Interpersonal Skills
Interaction is with a variety of people inside or outside the organization. Communications are of moderate difficulty and sensitivity. Contact with others may involve detailed & lengthy dialogues & exchanges of information. Requires a moderate amount of interpersonal skills. Interactions involve dealing with moderately complicated problem situations or stressful encounters.
Working Conditions :
There is a routine exposure to highly adverse environmental conditions including physical hazards, health and safety risks, and otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment. Personal risks require safety equipment or precautions to be followed closely. The time the employee may be exposed to these conditions in limited to 70% or less of the work day.
Possible Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens
Yes
Service Excellence Expectations
Patient Care Care Unit • Maquoketa, IA, US