Registered Nurse - Heart Failure Intermediate Care Unit

Job Category:

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Morning - Evening

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the Role:

Job Summary

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.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• 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 Job Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications:

• Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN

• Preferred Experience:

• Other:

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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 or 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

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

• 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
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  • Seeks opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team
  • Supports continuous learning on the unit by sharing research material from professional journals and/or organizations
  • Actively participates inquality improvement activities
  • Actively participates in implementing evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
  • Assists in facilitating unit-based education, in-services, and skills validation
  • Serves as a preceptor as needed for students, nurse residents and experienced nurses

  Structural Empowerment
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  • Advocates for cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
  • Role models keen cultural intelligence including preventing and addressinglateral violence and impairment
  • Participates in unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
  • Leads unit-based selfcare activities
  • Practices tools and techniques to mitigate and minimize workplace violence

  Empirical Outcomes
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  • Serves as a unit-based champion; completes unit-based audits and provides data to management for follow-up with staff to achieve positive outcomes as required for department
  • Serves as a super user
  • Participates in quality-of-care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
  • Actively participates in unit-based activities aimed atimproving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement

Physical Demands

• Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time

• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

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Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.