About This Role
This full-time Registered Nurse position in the Emergency Department involves assessing human responses, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for individuals and families. The nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in a professional practice setting
- Contribute to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring
- Assign or delegate tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff
- Assign duties and lunches for staff when performing a charge role
- Consider maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome
- Provide peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance
- Share knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues
- Willingly accept mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk-taking is not only safe but expected
- Participate on an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services
- Promote patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals)
- Participate in department-specific quality initiatives (e.g., EBP population specific)
- Assure appropriate order sets are used
- Supervise, delegate, and evaluate assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate
- Utilize 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
- Derive culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other health care providers
- Analyze the health status of individuals and families, comparing the data with the norm, when possible, to determine patient care needs
- Assess patient reports/records change of condition and notify physician and/or supervisor, intervene appropriately, and document accordingly
- Accept assignments in areas other than the primary unit, and perform duties within individualized competency
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others
- Promote advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations
- Seek both formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge
- Participate in systematic peer review and obtain informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others
