Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department - FT Nights

nghs; Winder (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeast Georgia Health System seeks a capable RN to provide direct patient care as part of an interdisciplinary team, expanding knowledge and skills, and mentoring as needed. The role emphasizes leadership opportunities and collaboration to enhance patient outcomes.

The RN will participate in unit-based councils and nursing quality teams, helping plan improvements in NDNQI indicators, RN satisfaction, and patient experience, while supporting staff development and engagement.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
• Minimum of 1 year RN experience; demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations or meets requirements on hire.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a charge nurse and ensures cost-effective, quality-driven, patient-focused care.
• Leads teams and participates in daily practice on units.
• Participates in at least one NGMC committee/council and supports governance goals.
• Models healthy work environment behaviors and fosters trust and empathy among staff.
• Engages in quality improvement activities and supports evidence-based practice.

Skills

Safe patient care

Communication skills

Evidence-based practice

Leadership

Computer skills

Education

Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma

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

Preferred Job Qualifications

Preferred Educational Requirements: 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 II performance expectations in addition to:

• 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

Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:

• 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; effective incorporating 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

Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:

• 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

Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:

• 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
• Participate