Staff RN - Hospital (Mother Baby)

Job Description

Qualifications

• •Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others

Benefits

Responsibilities

• •As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures
• •Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization
• •Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect
• •The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• •Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws
• •Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability
• •Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate
• •Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior
• •Champions new ideas
• •Leads and directs others through the change process
• •Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes
• •Participates in problem identification and resolution
• •Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
• •Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance
• •Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution
• •Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities
• •Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice
• •Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan
• •Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education
• •Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity
• •Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner
• •Monitors the patients progress based on the plan
• •Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress
• •Ensures care meets standards of practice
• •Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education
• •Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions
• •In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan
• •Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections
• •Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge
• •Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge
• •Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed
• •Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken
• •Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care
• •Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team
• •Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation
• •Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes
• •Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving
• •Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices
• •Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others
• •Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department
• •Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests
• •Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources
• •Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• •Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment
• •Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion
• •Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs
• •Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension
• •Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations
• •Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance
• •Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism
• •Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members
• •Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development
• •(Requirement may vary for per diem staff)
• •Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan
• •Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change
• •Adheres to Attendance Program
• •Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift
• •Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams
• •Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime
• •Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction
• •Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential