Registered Nurse

3 weeks ago

Lancaster, United States Lancaster General Health Full time
Summary
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY: Assume responsibility and accountability as defined by the American Nurses Association standards of nursing practice. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates
safe practice within the organizational professional practice model.
The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague exhibits Penn Medicine's experience standards which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly.
The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague demonstrates within the competency domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork.
The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned patients.
The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice. The nurse demonstrates how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals and the care delivery system. The nurse complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:
  • Incorporates the Lancaster General Health mission, vision and values into planning patient care.
  • Functions as an independent and interdependent member of the health care team as defined in unit based Plan for Provision of
Care.
  • Performs patient assessments, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive functions. Evaluates progress toward
attainment of outcomes and adapts the plan of care based on recognized trends and changes. Collects and manages
comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the situation.
  • Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues. Formulates age-appropriate and culturally and ethically
sensitive plan of care
  • Implements care in a knowledgeable manner and coordinates patient care across several disciplines and among caregivers.
  • Provides leadership to other members of the team by effectively communicating expected standards of care and encouraging
and supporting team members and their contributions.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to our values of privacy, quality, respect, service and teamwork.
  • Assigns, delegates, and supervises other employees and intervenes as appropriate to assure that the plan of care is carried
out, continuity of care is provided and that established outcomes are achieved through availability and appropriated utilization
of human, material and financial resources.
  • Educates patients about healthy practices and treatment modalities.
  • Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practices. Utilizes technology where appropriate.
  • Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing services.

SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
  • Manages rapidly changing situations following established protocols, coordinating and accessing appropriate health team
members and resources, and documenting events.
  • Participates in process improvement activities with an emphasis on increasing continuity in the nurse to patient relationship,
minimizing rework and redundancies; constantly seeks ways to improve processes, increase efficiency, finds solutions to
current situations or develops new methods and procedures.
  • Completes mandatory education and training that includes review of age-specific needs, caring behaviors, and interpersonal
skills as defined by unit based Plan for Provision of Care.
  • Maintains a safe working environment through compliance with established evidence-based practice policies and procedures
and timely reporting of safety variances.
  • Projects pride in their work as exhibited in day-to-day interactions with staff, coworkers, patients and all those they come in
contact with.
  • Seeks experiences and formal and independent learning activities to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and
knowledge.
  • Provides supervision, including guidance, counseling and mentoring, to targeted peers and subordinates to enhance the
learning experiences and improve the professional practice environment within the designated work setting.
  • Participates in the employee performance process related to peers and subordinate team members; address employee
problems, complaints, disputes or requests as the first level of supervision; evaluates their performance post hire.
  • Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position as required.
  • Other duties as assigned.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • RN licensure is required, issued by the PA Board of Nursing.
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or higher level nursing degree is required. For Magnet designated RN positions, BSN or higher level nursing degree is required for incumbents based upon previously established parameters; or within two (2) years of placement in position for incumbents who started after 07/01/2020.
  • Completion of the Nurse Residency Program or more than 15 months of practice.
  • CPR Certification - American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support, formerly Healthcare Provider (AHA Heart Saver courses for CPR are not accepted) required within 30 days of hire.
  • A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • As outlined in unit based Plan for Provision of Care.

COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS
Attention/Concentration:
  • The position requires the ability to attend to a specific stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or irrelevant stimuli. The attention skills required are generally considered to be automatic passive, but focused with an intact capacity for select perception.

New Learning and Memory:
  • The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. Job requirements change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions is mandatory.

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking:
  • The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS
Equipment/Tools: Computer, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, Office Supplies . click apply for full job details

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