Hourly Wage Estimate: $36.50 - $53.25 / hour
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As a Registered Nurse Pediatrics Intermediate Care, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn -whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Job Summary and Qualifications I. Position Summary:
The pediatric acute care nurse practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. Independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. The pediatric acute care nurse demonstrates knowledge within the competency domains of Patient and Family Centered Care, Evidence Based Practice, Safety, Continuous Quality Improvement, Teamwork, Informatics, Professionalism, and Leadership.
The pediatric acute care nurse works closely with the inter-professional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding their knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned patients. Complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by this position. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE: Recognizes the patient (or the patient's designee) as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
Manage more complex patient care assignments appropriate to skill level
Participate in building consensus and resolving conflict in the context of patient care
Able to speak to the patient about advanced care planning, values and end-of- life care
Evaluate and consider the implementation of alternative approaches to establishing a healing environment
Engage in problem solving to address complex issues regarding the delivery of safer, patient-and family- centered care
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE AND RESEARCH: Evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness
Utilize the EBP process generates clinical questions, searches and evaluates the quality of evidence, considers expert clinical knowledge and patient preferences and values, and applies it to practice
Recognize and communicate the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and /or measures for clinical practice evaluation
Department Name: Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit Employee Name:
Job Title: Pediatric Acute Care Nurse
Reports to (Title): Patient Care Director Supervises (Positions): None
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SAFETY: Minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
Serve as resource person for safety concerns
Demonstrate skills in problem solving, conflict resolution, and negotiation
Participate appropriately in analyzing errors and designing system improvements
CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
Participate in the design, review, and evaluation of QI data and initiatives at the unit level
Integrate QI initiatives into individual plan of care
Contribute to efforts to improve the quality of health care
TEAMWORK: Effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in their efforts to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within an inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
Assert your own position or perspective, and supports discussions about patient care and the work environment
Initiate a plan for self-development as a team member and in partnership with the department leader(s)
Apply leadership skills that support collaborative practice and team effectiveness
Demonstrate team values that highlight that we care about performance, the success of others and the organization
INFORMATICS: Utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
Serve as a resource for other nurses in for how to document and plan nursing care utilizing technology
Models' behaviors that support the appropriate use of clinical systems and technology in providing safe patient care
Promote communication technologies that support clinical decision making, error prevention, care coordination and, protection of patient privacy
With nursing colleagues, act as a champion for clear, concise, and timely documentation
Integrate the use of clinical information systems to coordinate and anticipate care across the continuum
PROFESSIONALISM: Demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through life-long learning, adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization, and advancing community outreach.
Promote identification and discussion of ethical concerns
Prepare for certification in a specialty
Foster and support the development of others through precepting
Identify opportunities for improved processes related to moral and ethical dilemmas
Promote the ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses and professional nursing and organizational standards
Actively delivers constructive feedback to peers with the purpose of fostering development and improving performance
LEADERSHIP: Collaborates and applies innovative, evidence-based problem-solving and decision making to promote effective change leadership in support of HCA HealthONE Presbyterian/St. Luke's and Rocky Mountain Children's vision.
Communicate confidently, adapting one's own style of communicating to meet the needs of the team and situation
Identify and embrace the need for change and new approaches to care when supported by evidence
Demonstrate appropriate use and allocation of resources
Establish oneself as a credible health care provider and resource
Identify diverse viewpoints and manages conflict
At HCA HealthONE Presbyterian/St. Luke's and Rocky Mountain Children's, we expect our iCARE behavioral standards to be reflected in the way every employee interacts with co-workers, providers, patients, and family members, and others in the community.
Integrity - We are honest and do what we say
Compassion - We are sympathetic to the needs of others
Accountability - We take ownership of how our actions and behaviors impact outcomes
Respect - We value others and embrace diversity
Excellence - We take personal pride in exceeding expectations
II. Position Requirements:
A. Licensure/Certification/Registration: Current licensure in the State of Colorado as a Registered Nurse or current active multistate Registered Nurse license. Current BLS required. PALS within 6 months of hire.
B. Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred.
C. Experience: At least one year of acute care/specialty nursing is preferred.
D. Special Qualifications: Demonstrates good organizational skills. Provides safe and appropriate care within the Standards of Nursing Practice at HCA HealthONE PSL/RMC. Demonstrates good critical thinking skills. Communicates positively and professionally.
Benefits
HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave . click apply for full job details
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