About this opportunity
Northeast Georgia Health System lists this Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department - FT Nights opportunity in demorest, Georgia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Job Category
Nursing - Registered Nurse
Work Shift/Schedule
12 Hr Evening - Morning
Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.
About the Role
Job Summary
Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.
Minimum Job Qualifications
Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required
Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience - Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
Other:
Preferred Job Qualifications
Preferred Licensure or other certifications:
Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN
Preferred Experience:
Other:
Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities
Transformational Leadership
Serves as a charge nurse and ensures appropriate patient care is provided in a cost effective, quality driven and patient focused manner
Serves on teams and leads teams as a part of daily practice
Participates in 1 NGMC committee/council
Role models healthy work environment behaviors and practices that include fostering trust among co-workers, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for one another
Exemplary Professional Practice
Serves as a role model for the unit in incorporating national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
Role models communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to physicians, advanced practice providers and other colleagues; effectively incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
If applicable, participates in at least one Advanced training skill not required of all registered nurses on the unit
Role models Sister Simone Roach's theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice
New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
Seeks opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team
Supports continuous learning on the unit by sharing research material from professional journals and/or organizations
Actively participates in quality improvement activities
Actively participates in implementing evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
Assists in facilitating unit-based education, in-services, and skills validation
Serves as a preceptor as needed for students, nurse residents and experienced nurses
Structural Empowerment
Advocates for cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
Role models keen cultural intelligence including preventing and addressing lateral violence and impairment
Participates in unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
Leads unit-based selfcare activities
Practices tools and techniques to mitigate and minimize workplace violence
Empirical Outcomes
Serves as a unit-based champion; completes unit-based audits and provides data to management for follow-up with staff to achieve positive outcomes as required for department
Serves as a super user
Participates in quality-of-care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
Actively participates in unit-based activities aimed at improving the patient's experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement
Physical Demands
Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time
Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time
Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time
Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time
Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time
Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding
Working at NGHS means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals.
NGHS: Opportunities start here.
Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.
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Worksite address
demorest, GA, 30535, US
Who can apply
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