Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: Nursing Specialty: Critical Care Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Third Shift Hours per Shift: 12 Experience: Minimum years of experience not specified, but CVICU experience and experience with recovering open heart patients preferred License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state Certifications: BLS required Must-Have: - No experience required. - Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations. - Practices effective, clear, and respectful communications (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language. - Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly, while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team. - Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary. - Shows an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications and/or ability to be trained. - Ability to communicate/collaborate with other care team members. - Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients. Description: The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person. This role focuses on the creation of a caring environment centered on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research, as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities includes: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments. Responsibilities include facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities. Providing patient and family-centered education, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning is part of the role. The RN performs and documents a comprehensive assessment in accordance with scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures. They consider the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level. Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints is essential. Collecting objective and subjective data and verifying initial assessments obtained by other healthcare team members are key tasks. Developing a prioritized problem list based on input from the inter-professional team is necessary. Actions and interventions are designed relevant to the patient’s culture and age. Determining desired outcomes in coordination with the patient and family according to the medical plan of care is also required. The RN fully implements patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies and professional guidelines. They explain procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families. Initiating actions to alleviate patient stress and discomfort is crucial. Recognizing, responding to, and communicating changes in patient condition appropriately is expected. Conducting and documenting ongoing assessments and responses to procedures and therapies according to hospital policy is required. Delegating tasks appropriately and overseeing team members in the performance of patient care activities is part of the role. Monitoring the accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members is essential in implementing the plan of care. Identifying and addressing educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to their level of comprehension is necessary. Facilitating the patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner is expected. Providing input into patient/nurse assignments based on available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity is part of the job. Demonstrating active participation in unit-based activities supports organizational values and priorities. Promoting a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions is crucial. Assuring nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence-based practice, and caring philosophy is required. Actively participating in quality improvement activities and core measures such as patient satisfaction is essential. Using a holistic perspective regarding patient care is fundamental.
