Urgently Need Senior Nurse Reduced Work Opti - Relocation Offered in Washington DC
Job title: Senior Nurse Reduced Work Opti - Relocation Offered
Company: Medstar Health
Job description: General Summary of Position
Delivers proficient nursing care to patients and families whose needs range from uncomplicated to highly complex.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Clinical: Identifies current and potential complex problems of a specific patient population, critically analyzes trends and changes in patient status, and plans appropriate interventions directly or indirectly through other nurses.
- Clinical: Collaborates with nurse leaders and colleagues to develop standards of care.
- Clinical: Develops and documents a plan of care that communicates to all caregivers the individualized needs of a patient with highly complex problems.
- Clinical: Identifies and evaluates long and short-range goals of nursing interventions.
- Clinical: Serves as a patient advocate by independently communicating clinical concerns in a timely manner to other members of the health care team.
- Clinical: Documents patient information in a manner that reflects the ability to integrate the nursing assessment data, pathophysiology of disease processes, and the therapeutic regimen into an appropriate evaluation of the patient status.
- Clinical: Coordinates and delivers care to patient (s) with increasingly complex nursing care needs to ensure the highest quality and safety while promoting a positive patient experience
- Clinical: Utilizes approaches and strategies that support and optimize patient care outcomes that are based on the interdisciplinary plan of care and absolutes of IMOC and Contemporary Primary Nursing. Participates in the Contemporary Primary Nursing Model by acting as a primary nurse or associate nurse for selected patients. Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team on the patient plan of care using the Interdisciplinary Model of Care (IMOC).
- Clinical: Takes action to support the National Patient Safety Goals, nursing sensitive indicators, regulatory requirements (i.e. DC Health, TJC) and other identified quality metrics.
- Educational: Educational: Provides input to the orientation program for new staff.
- Educational: Conducts the individual orientation for new staff.
- Educational: Conducts and evaluates formal unit-based in-service education programs.
- Educational: Completes all mandatory competencies within the designated time frame.
- Administrative: Assumes formally designated resource role for colleagues in unit management.
- Administrative: Acts as a consultant for nursing staff in the clinical management of patients.
- Administrative: Provides input to the ongoing clinical evaluation of staff.
- Administrative: Exhibits a demeanor that invites utilization by staff for problem solving.
- Administrative: Participates in the formulation, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of departmental goals, objectives, policies and procedures.
- Administrative: Participates in the implementation and evaluation of unit assessments and audits, including quality assurance and process improvement.
- Administrative: Assesses patient care needs, establishes priorities and delegates tasks to peers and ancillary support staff as appropriate to scope of practice and unit requirements.
- Administrative: Participates in unit-based committees and/or department of nursing committees.
- Administrative: Promotes the standards of Pathway to Excellence through daily practice.
- Associate's degree in Nursing required
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred
- As outlined in the NNU Collective Bargaining Agreement required
- RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure in the District of Columbia required
- BLS - Basic Life Support required
- Strong emphasis on teamworkour associates feel connected to each other and our mission as an organization. In return, our effective team environment generates positive patient outcomes and high associate satisfaction ratings that exceed the national benchmark.
- Strategic focus on equity, inclusion, & diversitywe are committed to equity for all people and communities. We continue to build a diverse and inclusive workplace where people feel a sense of belonging and the ability to contribute to equitable care delivery and improved community health outcomes at all levels of the organization.
- Comprehensive total rewards packageincluding competitive pay, generous paid time off, great health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, education assistance, and so much more.
- More career opportunities closer to homeas the largest healthcare provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region, there are countless opportunities to grow your career and fulfill your aspirations.