About This Role
This nursing role on a medical surgical ward involves providing high-quality, safe patient care as part of an interdisciplinary team. It suits a proactive clinical nurse dedicated to compassionate service and excellence, upholding the Wellstar mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person.
Responsibilities
- Perform the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation) in clinical care using evidence-based practice
- Use analytical and critical thinking to ensure individualized care
- Coordinate care through effective partnerships, recognizing that caring is central to optimal patient care outcomes
- Provide relationship-based patient-centered care consistent with population-specific characteristics (e.g., age, gender, disease) and cultural diversity
- Partner with the patient and significant others using appropriate methods for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report, interdisciplinary rounds, patient teaching)
- Keep the patient and significant others updated and make patient goals the focus of the plan of care
- Practice using current clinical practice standards
- Coordinate the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model
- Use diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc.)
- Complete timely documentation and promote a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
- Demonstrate teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a fiscally responsible manner
- Promote the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members
- Participate in and support performance improvement, research, and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care
- Initiate and/or lead performance improvement activities
- Promote an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively support/participate in shared governance at all levels in the system
- Complete all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment and required mandatory education
- Complete population-specific education
- Serve as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines)
- Model the professional practice of nursing and create a healthy work environment
- Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement in nursing
- Participate in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products
- Uphold all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies
- Adhere to legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements and standards (e.g., TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems safety absolutes)
