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A leading healthcare provider seeks a dedicated clinical nurse leader to enhance patient care quality in an intensive care setting. This role demands strong clinical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to integrate evidence into practice while mentoring other nursing staff. Ideal candidates will hold a BSN, possess strong communication abilities, and demonstrate a commitment to professional growth.
General Summary
This role is designed for the nurse who is a clinical and professional leader at the unit level. Demonstrates effective and consistent leadership behaviors in advancing evidence based practices, leading unit governance initiatives, and coaching others to achieve and grow in the role of the professional nurse.
Principal Responsibilities and Tasks The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.
Clinical Practice:
A. Accountable to patients and families for the processes and outcomes of care during an episode of care.
B . Accountable to peers for the advancement of group practice on the unit, and to the nurse manager for the totality of work performance.
A . Conducts comprehensive patient assessment, integrating multiple data sources, which forms the basis for identification of patient/family needs and problems.
B . Facilitates effective transition of patients between referring and receiving institutions.
C. Works effectively with the multidisciplinary team to plan patient care.
D. Under orders from the base station attending physician or established medical guidelines, initiates immediate life support therapies including but not limited to parenteral administration of approved medications; intravenous/intraosseous therapies; EKG monitoring; arrhythmia interpretation; CPR; defibrillation; external cardiac pacing airwaymanagement; endotracheal intubation; cricothyrotomy; ventilator operation; chest decompression; management of patients with altered neurological status; including cervical spine immobilization; application of splints and devices needed for transport.
E. Utilizes available resources within and outside the institution for the purpose of providing comprehensive care to patients and families.
F. Evaluates and revises individualized plan of care appropriately reflecting current and changing status of the patient and/or family.
G. Assesses patient progress and offers additional or alternate plans of care as needed.
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
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