Perinatal Nurse Specialist
5 days ago
As a leader in the healthcare team, the Perinatal Nurse Specialist provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures.
They demonstrate performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization.
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist remains flexible to changing systems, demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice, and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the healthcare team, delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem-solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
Nursing Process:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
They ensure the plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
They ensure the plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age-appropriate care, cultural-specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
They ensure the plan is discussed with the patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
They revise the plan on an ongoing basis based on the patient's condition and evaluation of progress.
They ensure care meets standards of practice.
They ensure effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
They ensure that the patient clearly understands discharge instructions.
In outpatient, they identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
They ensure optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears, or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment, or discharge.
They ensure that the patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
Documentation:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
They utilize computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
Clinical Outcomes:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the healthcare team.
They demonstrate competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
They make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
They participate in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
Workplace Safety:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist adheres to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
They apply standard precautions; maintain a safe environment for self and others.
Patient Care Experience:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
They promptly answer call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
They make appropriate referrals and facilitate the customer's ability to utilize resources.
They maintain and protect patient confidentiality.
They ensure a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
They treat all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
They give patients information in a way they can understand and ensure comprehension.
They provide a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
Team Commitment:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist is viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
They confront difficult or conflict situations constructively and seek appropriate assistance.
They take accountability for own actions and accept constructive criticism.
They act as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
They attend all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, actively participate in other departmental professional development.
They participate with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
They keep self-informed of activities on the unit and make recommendations for change.
They adhere to Attendance Program.
They report to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at the beginning of assigned shift.
They support a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
Fiscal Responsibility:
The Perinatal Nurse Specialist organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
They identify and assist in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
They utilize payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
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