Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Registered Nurse to join our Cardiac Rehabilitation team at Trinity Health Michigan. As a key member of our care team, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care that reflects respect for patients' rights, dignity, values, culture preferences, and expressed needs.

Responsibilities:

• Provide patient care that reflects respect for patients' rights, dignity, values, culture preferences, and expressed needs.
• Demonstrate principles of Relationship-based Care to cultivate and maintain therapeutic relationships as a means to optimal healing and collegial functioning as interdisciplinary care team members.
• Utilize research and evidence-based practice in the delivery of care, to advance nursing practice, and to improve nurse and patient satisfaction, and quality of care.
• Implement care in accordance with the multi-disciplinary plan of care collaborating with and delegating appropriately to other care team members as needed.
• Use and effectively integrate technology to support nursing care and practice.
• Use data and evidence to drive decisions at point of care that improve and optimize care delivery, clinical outcomes, and patient and nurse satisfaction.
• Actively engage and participate in resource planning to advance nursing practice, quality of care, and nurse and patient satisfaction, through staffing, acuity response, supply management and budget planning.
• Actively engage and participate in unit-based and other committees and initiatives that promote patient and workplace safety, optimal clinical outcomes, and satisfaction.
• Support and participate in nursing shared governance and interdisciplinary decision-making.
• Seek and incorporate feedback concerning improvement in one's own practice, through participation in peer review nursing case review, and self-appraisal.
• Contribute to the positive image of nursing and enhances the SJMO culture of excellence by modeling professional behavior both in the organization and in the community.
• Embrace change and lifelong learning, taking personal accountability to seek out experiences that promote personal and professional growth in order to advance skills and competence.
• Embrace change and lifelong learning, taking personal accountability to seek out experiences that reflect current practice in order to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice and role performance.
• Integrate principles of the Personal.Connected.Journey and demonstrates Trinity Health Guiding Behaviors to provide excellent care of self, patients, and care team members.
• Utilize process excellence tools and processes to improve the quality of patient care delivery.
• Utilize technology to support nursing care and practice.
• Utilize data and evidence to guide best practice and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland through performing behaviors consistent with the Trinity Health Values.
• Maintain a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations, the Trinity Health Organizational Integrity Program, including the Standards of Conduct, Code of Ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behaviors.
• Support and conducts one's self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing is preferred.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Active license to practice nursing in the State of Michigan.
• Certification by a nationally recognized nursing organization is preferred.
• Membership in a professional nursing organization is preferred.
• BCLS for all inpatient bedside care areas, and inpatient and outpatient surgical services required within 45 days from date of hire or transfer.
• ACLS for specified care areas as follows: AICU, CCU, PACU, cath lab, ambulatory surgery, emergency department, radiology/special procedures, and endoscopy required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
• ENPC and TNCC for specified care areas as follows: emergency department, clinical decision unit and critical care NRP required within 12 months from date of hire or transfer.
• NRP for specified care areas as follows: labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care required within 12 months from date of hire or transfer.
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring Certification (EFM-c) is required for specified areas as follows: Labor and Delivery, Antenatal, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, required within the first 12 months from date of hire or transfer.
• NIH Stroke Scale for specified care areas such as follows: AICU, CCU, emergency department, critical care NRP, and neuroscience required within 6 months of date of hire or transfer.
• FIM credentialing for specified care areas such as follows: inpatient rehabilitation required within 6 months of hire or transfer.
• Two years of experience in a health care related field preferred.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to improve the quality of patient care delivery through innovative and creative resolution finding, becoming expert at point of care resolution through use of critical thinking.
• Demonstrates responsiveness to needs of patients, other care team members, and self.
• Ability to serve as a teacher, mentor, and coach to patients, students, new nurses, peers, other colleagues, and staff, to advance the profession of nursing and optimize patient outcomes.
• Ability to organize and prioritize, in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to use and effectively integrate positive communication approaches to meet diverse patient needs, optimize resources, and adapt care processes to accommodate changing patient acuity and unit needs.
• Ability to use critical thinking, logic and reasoning to address complex situations.
• Excellent interpersonal service skills necessary in order to form and maintain positive relationships with customers and other healthcare professionals.
• Ability to use and effectively integrate positive communication approaches to meet diverse patient needs, optimize resources, and adapt care processes to accommodate changes in the healthcare environment.
• Excellent customer service orientation skills necessary in order to deal effectively with various levels of hospital personnel, outside customers and community groups.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

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