Job Details
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient / family to identify and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promotes the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
- Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
- Evaluates patient's response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome.
- Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic / diagnostic interventions.
- Promote, advocate and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient / family education and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
- Provide relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care.
- Delegates to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment and supplies to provide high quality, cost effective patient care.
- Professional role model for all staff demonstrating ethical / legal / professional nursing process.
- Manages resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient's and unit needs.
- Uses standards of care, hospital policies / procedures and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precepts / mentors new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Seeks out learning opportunities and continuing education.
- Seeks experiences that reflect current practice in order to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and life long learning.
- Evaluates one's own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
- Takes action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation at hospital and unit based meetings.
- Verbalizes an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences and safe delivery of care.
- Participate in unit-based Quality improvement, evidence-based practice and research activities.
- Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Job Requirements
- One year experience preferred.
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.
Additional Details
- Float Requirements :
- Floating may be required to any Centura location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location or Centura-identified 'float zone'.
- Float assignments may include duties outside of original assignment job requirements (including skill set) in accordance with Centura policy.
7 days ago