RN - General Medical Surgical (NEW GRADS) Jefferson

Allegheny Clinic; Jefferson Hills (Allegheny County); In loco; USD 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

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Generous benefits for full-time and **

Private patient rooms

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Allegheny Health Network is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse for the 4 West - Medical-Surgical Unit at Jefferson Hills. The unit is a 36-bed team focused on post-operative care for patients from adolescence to adulthood, including bariatric recovery and diverse diagnoses.

The RN will provide leadership in a professional practice setting, collaborate with care teams, and participate in quality and safety initiatives while maintaining high standards of patient-centered care.

Competenze

• Current State of PA RN licensure is required.
• Demonstrates leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Engages in interdisciplinary teamwork and quality initiatives.

Mansioni

• Provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Acts as a team player to help others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Delegates tasks based on patient needs and staff skill levels.
• Contributes to maintaining a safe environment and monitoring patient condition.
• Provides feedback to peers regarding clinical practice and performance.
• Participates in interdisciplinary teams to evaluate care and health services.
• Supports patient safety initiatives and department quality projects.
• Assesses patient status and notifies physicians as needed.
• Assumes assignments outside primary unit within competency.
• Engages in lifelong learning and professional development.

Conoscenze

Leadership in professional practice

Team collaboration

Mentoring

Formazione

PA RN licensure

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Company

Allegheny Health Network Job Description : 4 West - Medical Surgical Unit: 36 bed medical-surgical unit including a 4 bed bariatric surgery recovery area. 4 West specializes in the care of post-operative patients from adolescence to adulthood in addition to caring for patients with variety of diagnoses and levels of care relating to all body systems including diabetes management, cellulitis, wound/ostomy care, and failure to thrive in the older adult.

About Jefferson Hospital

We're proud to announce that we have once again earned ANCC Magnet® Recognition, the most prestigious award a hospital can earn for exceptional nursing quality. This time, our AHN Jefferson nurses took it a step further to earn "Magnet with Distinction™," an honor reserved for the highest-performing Magnet® organizations across the world. In fact, AHN Jefferson is the first hospital in the region to achieve Magnet with Distinction™. Our incredible nurses who have been recognized as being among the best of the best in the world! In addition to our culture of nursing excellence, our facility features private patient rooms and offers a generous benefit package for full-time and part-time status employees.

Allegheny Health Network

At AHN, employees trust working together and place patients at the center of all they do. This 9 Hospital system, a part of Highmark Health, is transforming the future of healthcare by providing highly effective services to customers, patients and communities. AHN has commitment and dedication to being inclusive, valuing fresh perspectives, and offering the best growth and educational opportunities to employees.

General Overview

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families for whom the nurse is responsible. The Registered Nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.

Essential Responsibilities

• The registered nurse provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN or support staff.
• Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues.
• Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk taking is not only safe but expected.
• Participates on interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (ex: National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department specific quality initiatives (ex: EBP population specific). Assures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate and implement a patient plan of care according to the individual needs of the patient as prescribed by physician, nurse and hospital policy including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Analyzes the health status of the individuals and families comparing the data with the norm, when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Assesses patient reports/records change of condition and notifies physician and/or supervisor and intervenes appropriately and documents accordingly.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit, and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks both formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one's own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues and others. Identifies areas of strength, as well as, areas in which professional development would be beneficial.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Continuously evaluates and assesses patient and family satisfaction.
• Participates in department specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family centered.
• Assesses for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within established work shift.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Current State of PA RN licensure