Staff Nurse

Overview

Position: Registered Nurse

Responsibilities

• Nursing Care Assessment and Documentation: Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and documents nursing care of patients in accordance with organizational policies and professional nursing practice standards. Utilizes the framework for professional nursing practice and development.
• Quality Assurance and Improvement: Ensures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals, and making or recommending necessary adjustments following hospital and nursing division philosophies and standards.
• Evidence-Based Care: Provides comprehensive, safe, and effective evidence-based nursing care to achieve identified health outcomes.
• Promote Healing Environment: Creates and maintains a healing environment conducive to patient recovery.
• Preparation of Equipment and Supplies: Prepares rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, and supplies, and ensures that stock levels of supplies are maintained.
• Communication Skills: Utilizes high-level communication skills with patients, families, and the healthcare team to ensure clear understanding and positive interactions.
• Patient Discharge Coordination: Refers and coordinates the patient's discharge arrangements with the case manager in accordance with the DSFH discharge policy.
• Quality Improvement (QI) Responsibilities: Performs other QI responsibilities as delegated by the Nurse Manager.
• Patient-Centered Care: Creates partnerships with patients and families to establish goals and plans for delivering patient-centered care.
• Adherence to Ethical Standards: Performs duties in accordance with the code of conduct and ethical standards as outlined in the HCM policies and guidelines.