About This Role
This night-shift role on the postpartum unit involves delivering patient care through assessment, planning, and evaluation. The role suits a registered nurse with experience in postpartum or nursery care, working as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Deliver patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment
- Identify and determine the priority of patient's problems/needs
- Evaluate the process and outcome of nursing care
- Coordinate, provide, and direct patient teaching activities
- Coordinate the care provided by health team members
- Conduct initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyze assessment data, create a plan of care, implement treatment, and evaluate treatment effectiveness in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team
- Administer medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and organization policies and procedures
- Serve as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments
- Act as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department
- Incorporate the professional practice model into care delivery
Requirements
- At least one year postpartum or nursery RN experience
- Knowledge of contemporary nursing practice and future innovations
- Nursing judgment and skill based on principles of the biological, physical, behavioral, and social sciences
- Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery
- Coordination of patient care delivery
- Evaluation of professional nursing practice to optimize goals and outcomes
- Health teaching and health promotion
- Patient advocacy and partnership
- Interprofessional collaboration and leadership
- Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies
- Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence
- Integration of quality improvement, evidence-based practices and research in practice
- Accountability for professional actions
- Effective stewardship of available resources
- Conflict management and resilience
- Authority for delegating activities to others, while remaining responsible and accountable for outcomes
- BLS Basic Life Support, American Heart Association (required at hire for Roper St Francis Healthcare locations; preferred at hire, required prior to independent patient care at BSMH)
- Valid nursing license from the state of practice (required)
- Associate of Nursing (required)
