DescriptionUnder the general supervision of the Team Leader and Director of Surgical Services, is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective and quality patient/family centered care in Surgical Services.This is a full-time position working 31.5 hours per week with required rotation in the on-call schedule.

Responsibilities

• Patient Advocacy: - Protects the patient\'s rights, dignity, and privacy
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
• Develops and/or implements and maintains an individualized plan of care, including developmental and cultural needs
• Promotes patient\'s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
• Utilize appropriate resources for non-English speaking patients, hearing and sight impaired individuals, and/or healthcare illiteracy
• Takes proactive steps to recognize and report suspected abuse to your supervisor including child, geriatric, sexual, and spousal abuseClinical Competency:
• Assesses patients at intervals and communicates current status through the continuum of care
• Protects patient from injury caused by chemical, electrical, positioning, heat and/or extraneous objects - Performs "time out" procedure for every patient to ensure correct side, site and level prior to procedure
• Initiates intravenous therapy skillfully and acts as a resource for intravenous therapy needs within the hospital
• Manages patient specimen according to hospital policy
• Administers medications appropriately
• Post-surgery; procedure, monitors, maintains and /or improves respiratory, circulatory, and neurologic function
• Performs interventions to maintain body systems, fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances, wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline
• Provides effective pain management
• Performs interventions to ensure patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of procedure
• Protects the patient from infection using handwashing and aseptic technique
• Transfers care using hospital approved handoff
• Documents nursing care consistently, timely, and without omissions
• Delegates tasks as appropriate according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions
• Identifies and acts appropriately to an emergency situation
• May have to lift more than 25 pounds

Quality:

• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments
• Follows hospital and nursing division\'s mission, philosophies and standards of care - Participates in quality review and performance improvement projects

Professionalism:

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and/or participating in professional societies
• Demonstrates the accountability as a health care professional by recognizing each practitioner is individually responsible for his/her actions

Qualifications
Education:

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program. BSN preferred

Experience:

• Current clinical skills within scope of practice;
• Effectively organize work and set priorities;
• Current infection control practice;
• Positive bedside manner;
• Applicable physio/social/spiritual knowledge related to patient care;
• Safe administration of medication;
• Works effectively within the healthcare team;
• Able to work irregular hours including call
• Pediatric Advance Cardiac Life Support - Certification Preferred.
• Current State License RN or compact license required
• Basic Life Support required

Key Skills: