Registered Nurse-Emergency Services Part Time Evenings

Northwesternmedicine; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwesternmedicine is seeking skilled nurses to provide comprehensive patient assessments, plan and coordinate care, and support discharge planning with a patient- and family-centered approach.

The role emphasizes evidence-based practice, teach-back education, and collaboration with the health care team to ensure safe, high-quality care and continuous improvement within the unit.

Responsibilities

• Completes comprehensive assessments and documents findings.
• Communicates changes in patient condition promptly.
• Uses nursing diagnoses and assessment data to set measurable goals.
• Identifies and prioritizes patient needs and documents them.
• Collaborates with patient, family and healthcare team for planning and referrals.
• Assesses discharge needs and referrals, including palliative care.
• Evaluates patient responses to interventions and updates the care plan.
• Ensures discharge instructions and medication reconciliation are provided.
• Provides patient education with teach-back methods.
• Manages ethics, culture, and diversity needs in teaching.
• Treats patients and families with respect and dignity.
• Participates in unit safety, quality metrics, and ladder projects.
• Maintains safe medication administration with barcode scanning.
• Promotes patient safety and rights; accurate bedside handoffs.
• Rounds hourly with patient care tech to coordinate care.
• Leads clinical practice improvements and quality initiatives.
• Ensures prevention of pressure ulcers, falls, and infections as appropriate.
• Acts as unit safety facilitator and participates in huddles.
• Oversees and directs work of patient care staff; leads teams.
• Serves as resource and role model for new staff and students.
• Precepts, mentors, and participates in peer review.
• Collaborates with all hospital services to maintain excellence.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Relationship to Patient/Family and Community
• Care Coordination
• Performs a comprehensive assessment on all assigned patients as evidenced by completed documentation.
• Communicates changes in patient's condition promptly.
• Utilizes appropriate nursing diagnosis and data from the assessment to derive realistic outcomes and documents them as measurable goals on the plan of care; modifies care plan, if indicated, in order to identify realistic patient goals.
• Identifies and prioritizes patient needs and/or nursing diagnosis for patients and documents.
• Collaborates with patient, family, and other members of the health care team when planning patient care and documents accordingly. Assesses patients with regard to discharge planning and makes the appropriate referrals as necessary.
• Evaluates and documents the patient response to nursing interventions and alters the plan of care as necessary.
• Assesses patients with regard to discharge planning and makes the appropriate referrals as necessary, including palliative care.
• Assures a completed discharge instructions, medication reconciliation and provide information to patient/family regarding the use of the patient portal and other pertinent resources.
• Patient Education/Ethic and Diversity
• Supports patient/family/spiritual/cultural needs when assessing the patient and family needs for teaching; identifies the patient's learning level and readiness, and documents education record.
• Utilizes the teach back methodology for advancing patient education about medication side effects and new medication education.
• Utilizes and distributes Krames for patient education /clinical condition.
• Utilizes culture vision as a resource in care planning and delivery.
• Treats patients, families and staff in a caring manner with respect and dignity.
• Acknowledges and values the contributions of patient's significant others as an integral part of the plan of care.
• Adheres to ethical standards of practice.
• Calls for an ethics consult when appropriate.
• EBP and Research
• Implements nursing interventions consistent with the established plan of care based on evidenced based care.
• Maintains and advances the professional image and science of nursing and the practice of professional nursing through use of best available evidence utilizing resources such as Ovid/Joanna Briggs, Up to Date, Culture Vision, and other reliable sources of evidence.
• Demonstrates active involvement in clinical LADDER project or process improvement at the unit/organization level.
• Healing Safe Environment
• Demonstrates safe medication administration through the use of bar coding
• Promotes and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient
• Conveys complete, timely, and accurate information at bedside shift report/hand-off
• Rounds hourly in collaboration with patient care technician
• Protects patients by maintaining a safe environment of excellence
• Demonstrates innovation and participation in meeting unit based and organizational quality metrics on the exceptional care dashboard
• Ensures clinical practice excellence that focuses on preventing pressure ulcers, falls, CAUTI's and central line infections (as appropriate to area of practice).
• Participates as a unit safety facilitator or as identified resource for quality initiatives as requested
• Participates in unit huddles
• Relationship to Colleagues
• Shared Leadership
• Oversees and directs the work of patient care or support techs; maintains overall accountability for the care of assigned patients.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills in leading and directing others; deals with conflict directly and appropriately.
• Demonstrates proficiency in the charge nurse/preceptor role when assigned; assumes responsibility for coordinating patient care for the entire unit.
• Takes the clinical lead when patient's condition changes and confers with the primary care physician about the appropriate treatment plan or the need to transfer to the appropriate level of care.
• Serves as a resource and role model for new staff, students, and other system personnel
• Assists with precepting, unit orientation, and mentoring as requested.
• Participates in the peer evaluation process by providing feedback to colleagues on a regular basis, and through participation in clinical case peer review.
• Works collaboratively with all hospital services to responsibly accomplish daily work and maintain an environment of excellence.
• Identifies barriers to effective clinical practice and communicates to nursing leadership and practice