RN-ICU Day Nights MI

Summary



Accountabilities

*All duties listed below are essential unless noted otherwise*

Patient- & Family-Centered Care

Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preference values and needs.

Elicit and communicate patient values preferences and expressed needs.

Provide patient-centered care with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Engage patients or designated surrogates in active partnerships that promote health safety and well-being and self-care management.

Addresses patient/family education needs considering patient level of comprehension and style of learning from the point of entry through discharge.

Navigates and collaborates with patient family and healthcare team regarding the care provided and needed to ensure appropriate transition along the continuum.

Evaluates patients response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Evidence-Based Practice

Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Base individualized care plan on patient values clinical expertise and evidence.

Nursing Practice

Assesses formulates nursing diagnosis plans and implements and continually evaluates effectiveness of the individualized written nursing care plan and delivery of nursing care for each patient assigned.

Analyzes and prioritizes problems and makes sound judgments based on logic and/or critical thinking skills.

Safety and Quality Improvement

Improve the safety and quality of healthcare systems by minimizing the risk of harm to patients and the healthcare team.

Administers medications and executes regimens as authorized by the state licensure.

Incorporates quality measures and data to understand individual and system performance.

Applies use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.

Identifies strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.

Participates in unit-based quality improvement evidence-based practice projects or research.

Promotes and incorporates error prevention techniques.

Report safety concerns and events including near misses.

Informatics & Technology

Promote and incorporate use of technology to communicate manage information mitigate errors and support decision-making.

Navigates plans patient care and documents ongoing status interventions patient responses and outcomes in an accurate timely manner in the electronic health record.

Responds appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts.

Advocates protecting the integrity of the healthcare record and the privacy of each patient.

Communication Teamwork & Collaboration

Interacts effectively with patient families and with healthcare team to foster open communication mutual respect and shared decision-making.

Functions as the coordinator of the patients plan of care through interaction and communication with healthcare team.

Acts with integrity consistency and respect for diversity.

Functions within scope of practice.

Delegates to other team members as appropriate.

Escalates barriers safety and clinical concerns utilizing appropriate chain of command.

Leadership & Professionalism

Influences the behavior of individuals or groups within the environment to facilitate goal establishment and.

Understands and maintains a current working knowledge of scope of practice as outlined by the state board of nursing.

Integrates leadership skills to promote systems thinking communication and facilitating change.

Participates in healthcare teams to improve patient care the work environment and patient and staff satisfaction.

Accountable to own nursing practice by following nursing process. Assigns directs delegates and supervises ancillary personnel and support staff in carrying out particular roles/functions aimed at achieving patient care goals.

Systems-Based Practice

Participates in practices endorsed at the healthcare system level.

Plans organizes and delivers patient care in the context of the work unit.

Rounds with providers.

Practices bedside report/hand-offs.

Ensures meaningful hourly rounding occurs.

Escalates concerns utilizing appropriate chain of command to maintain safety quality and patient satisfaction.

Other duties as assigned.



Required Qualifications

Education: The RN in Michigan must complete twenty-five contact hours of continuing education during his/her licensure period. At least 2 hours of contact hours must be related to pain and pain symptom management. At least 1 hour of contact hours must be related to implicit bias training.



Skills:

Complies with nursing process

Ability to respond effectively and efficiently to critical situations involving patients personnel and visitors in a professional manner

Performs basic nursing skills competently

Ability to evaluate own daily practice for errors and pursue corrective action

Engages in the changing environment and is open to new ideas

Functions as a dependable team member assisting when requested or when the need is obvious

Communicates effectively and empathetically with all members of the healthcare team including patients

Responsible for continued professional growth and development and competency

Navigate and retrieve information from the computer and healthcare record



License: Current State license as a Registered Nurse

Certification: Current CPR training. Specialty certifications as required

Preferred Qualifications

Education: BSN

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