Staff Nurse - 10 K

3926
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Job Summary
A professional caregiver who assumes accountability for a group of patients by providing care to these patients through the nursing process.
The RN is dedicated to providing quality service in a timely, courteous, and cost effective manner.
Essential Functions
Demonstrates Safety Awareness:
Role in codes red, blue, orange, gray, silver, amber, external triage, internal triage, rapid response team, CODE NAME clear, lift, and blue trauma.
Role in medical equipment failure (if applicable) Using universal precautions.
Demonstrating, describing proper body mechanics.
Using lifts.
Appropriately disposes of materials (linens, sharps, hazardous materials).
Practices Infection Control Strategies:
Describes/demonstrates standard precautions.
Describes/demonstrates work unit specific infection control processes related to equipment, procedures, etc.
Participates in Quality Improvement:
Seeks knowledge, skills, abilities to implement quality improvement processes.
Implements quality improvement processes.
HIPAA Requirements:
Observes/protects patient privacy and confidentiality.
Corporate Compliance:
Demonstrates understanding of Corporate Compliance and business ethics.
Environment of care:
Describes or demonstrates responsibilities under all Environment of Care (EOC) areas with respect to job title, work unit and area of expertise.
Follows the approved hand hygiene practices and procedures:
Follows proper hand hygiene procedures.
Natural nails are proper length and free of ornamentation.
Practices Age/ Culture Awareness:
Describes/demonstrates considerations made for cultural differences encountered in day-to-day work.
Describes/demonstrates considerations made for age differences encountered in day-to-day work.
Safely and accurately performs bedside blood glucose testing:
Performs bedside blood glucose testing using appropriate techniques per policy.
Interprets results and intervenes appropriately.
Performs quality control per procedure.
Has completed written Accucheck competency this calendar year.
Knowledge and standards of performance:
Follows unit specific RN performance standards, structure standards, policies procedures.
Utilizes knowledge of human growth and development to plan and provide age-appropriate patient care.
Demonstrates effective responses to unit/patient crisis situations.
Demonstrates punctuality to work, maintains good attendance record, and commitment to assigned schedule.
Completes timecard per procedure, adheres to dress code, and keeps license and certifications up-do-date.
Participates in self-evaluation and completes all required data at performance appraisal time.
Demonstrates ability to appropriately challenge questionable care practices.
Participates in committees, task forces, and projects.
Attends unit staff meetings and maintains effective interdepartmental communication.
Maintains a positive, customer-oriented attitude.
Meets organizational and work unit standards as outlined in policies and procedures.
Performs all job duties in accordance with recognized safety procedures.
Demonstrates the ability to make calm and sensible decisions under various work situations, dealing with immediate problems reasonably.
Chooses appropriate standard of care and associated protocols and individualizes POC per patient need.
Reviews POC and revises as needed.
Collaborates with other health care professionals, communicates POC to other members of health care team.
Completes all POC upon discharge.
Engages in discharge planning.
Demonstrates ongoing evaluation of patient condition and evaluates effectiveness of each intervention.
Judges the effectiveness of current protocols and documents all evaluations.
Prior to discharge completes/reviews/ sends with patient:
discharge Med Reconciliation list, appropriate discharge teaching, and complete discharge instructions.
Identifies patient/significant other learning needs and implements appropriate teaching protocols.
Utilizes documentation tools according to established guidelines.
Documents effectiveness of medications.
Documents pain scale evaluations.
Patients Rights / Legal Issues:
Functions to protect patient privacy, meet patient`s right to be informed, and protect patient`s valuables per hospital policy.
Continuous Quality Improvement:
Demonstrates appropriate use of Midas and adherence to all unit and department safety policies.
Demonstrates appropriate use of Medication Event Forms.
Participates in QI activities:
audits, data collection, and criteria development.
Leads and/or participates in developing and designing systems and processes for the new organization.
Continually improves and redesigns processes to increase productivity and quality.
Accountable and productive time mgmt.
Essential Functions Specific to OB:
Meets organizational and work unit standards as outlined in policies and procedure.
Demonstrates the ability to carry out unit-specific skills and assist physicians with unit-specific measures.
Completes peer review promptly when requested.
Participates in coaching and counseling sessions, gives criticism to others in a private and constructive manner and accepts criticism in a positive self-development manner.
Accurately assesses assigned patients of pertinent systems.
Completes admission assessment, shift assessment and updates as patient's condition changes.
Accountable and productive time management.
Leads and/or participates in developing and designing systems and processes for the organization.
Knowledge/use of equipment:
Demonstrates ability to use equipment.
Able to safely use and interpret fetal monitors, infant warmers, isolettes, infant cardiac/apnea monitors, vacuum extractors bag, cpm device, k-pad.
Demonstrates commitment to training:
Follows directions non defensively.
Maintains calm, professional attitude.
Participates in C-section when assigned.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complies with all Skagit Regional Health, department and location specific policies and procedures.
Education
RN required, BSN preferred.
Knowledge of fundamentals of nursing practice and medical surgical and/or critical care nursing.
Experience/Training
One year labor and delivery experience required.
Experience may be substituted by completion of the SRH Nurse Residency Program.
License/Certifications
Washington State RN License required.
American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS required.
NRP certification required within 6 months of hire d.