Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department ED - FT Days

nghs; Gainesville (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeast Georgia Health System in Georgia is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide direct and safe patient care as part of an interdisciplinary team. The role focuses on complex patients and promotes evidence-based practice while seeking mentorship to grow into a bedside leadership position.

New graduates are supported, with licensure as an RN in Georgia, ADN or Diploma required and BSN preferred. The RN will participate in councils and quality improvement efforts to enhance patient experience

Qualifications

• Must hold Georgia RN licensure and current national certification.
• ADN or Diploma required; BSN preferred for career advancement.
• Capable of delivering direct, safe patient care and coordinating care on a shift.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process.
• Coordinate care for assigned patients within a shift to meet clinical outcomes.
• Lead when appropriate, and seek mentoring in bedside leadership roles.
• Participate in PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams.
• Assist in improving NDNQI indicators, RN satisfaction, and patient experience.

Skills

Direct patient care

RN leadership

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Evidence-based practice

Communication with patients

Education

Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN)

Diploma in Nursing

BSN preferred

Job description

Job Category:

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Morning - Afternoon

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. Current National Professional Certification required.

Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree. ADN or Diploma required.

Minimum Experience: ADN with 5 years of experience. BSN with 3 years of experience. Demonstrated competence in RN II performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

NGHS Classes attendance required: Clinical Preceptor Course, DPM Huddle Facilitation Class, Charge Nurse Development Course (ANPD Frontline Nurse Leader Program.)

Preferred Job Qualifications

Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN

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

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility
• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum
• Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization

Exemplary Professional Practice

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization's professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
• Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• Incorporates Sister Simone Roach's 7 Cs of Caring: Ctheory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice

New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• Ensures improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility f