Registered Nurse SCU and Intermediate Care

Number of Job Openings Available:1Date Posted:August 14, 2024Department:38023010 Unity Intensive Care UnitShift:Day/Night (United States of America)Shift Length:12 hour shiftHours Per Week:36Union Contract:MNA-13-Unity RNWeekend Rotation:Every 3rdJob Summary:16 bed Specialty Care Unit, patients managed by hospitalists, 1:3 RN/patient ratios, 1 NA and 1 PCT on per shift. Patient populations include simple sepsis, DKA, pain management, respiratory failure (Bipap and short-term ventilator, < 48 hour), CHF, HTN, MI with no interventions, withdrawal management, renal failure (hemodialysis), conscious sedation management and vasopressor management, strokes with no interventionsKey Position Details:* Benefit Eligible* 12-hour day/night shift* Every 3rd weekendTier 1: 1+ year current SCU experience or intermediate experienceTier 2: 1+ year telemetry experienceTier 3: 1+ year med surg experienceJob Description:Principle Responsibilities* Assessment.* Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.* Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other health care providers and environment as appropriate.* Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.* Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.* Diagnosis.* Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.* Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.* Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the current patient status.* Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.* Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.* Outcomes Identification.* Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.* Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.* Planning.* Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.* Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.* Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.* Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.* Implementation.* Implements the identified plan.* Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.* Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate.* Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate* Documents interventions according to documentation guidelines.* Evaluation.* Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the outcome.* Evaluates the patient's/family's understanding of and response to the plan of care.* Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.* Involves the patient, family, and health care team members in the evaluation process when appropriate.* Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care according to documentation guidelines.* Quality of Practice.* Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.* Participates in quality improvement activities related to nursing practice.* Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing practice and outcome.* Education.* Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.* Participates in educational activities related to nursing practice.* Acquires and applies the knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing practice.* Professional Practice Evaluation.* Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines.* Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis, identifying strengths and goals for professional development.* Obtains informal feedback regarding one's own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.* Collegiality.* Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others.* Shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.* Provides immediate and ongoing positive and constructive feedback to colleagues regarding their performance.* Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.* Collaboration.* Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.* Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation.* Ethics.* Acts in an ethical manner.* Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-nurse relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries.* Serves as a patient advocate assisting patients in developing skills for self-advocacy* Uses available resources to help formulate ethical decisions.* Research.* Integrates research findings in practice.* Utilizes the best evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.* Resource Utilization.* Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in planning and delivering patient care.* Utilizes resources related to standards of care in a safe, effective and ethical manner.* Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the future.* Leadership.* Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.* Functions as a professional role model.* Promotes a positive work environment.* Participates in shared decision-making.* Environmental Health.* Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.* Attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, such as implementation of environmental health strategies.* Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and healthcare consumers.* Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and communities.* Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role).* Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation so the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently utilized in a safe manner.* Promotes an environment that encourages individual growth, nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.* Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other disciplines.* Preceptor (only when acting in this role).* Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs and plans appropriate learning experiences.* Demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation plan for the orientee.* Demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee.* Facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee.* Demonstrates ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of orientee.* Serves as a professional role model.* Facilitated socialization of orientee into the organization and work group.* Other duties as assigned.Job Requirements* Associate's or Vocational degree required* Bachelor's degree preferred* All new grads must apply to the New Grad RN Requisition: R-0000016. New Graduate RN applicants must be a graduate of an accredited Nursing Program.* Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required if working in the state of MN upon hire* BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required by completion of orientation* ACLS/BLS Tier 2-Advanced Cardiac Life Support - Multisource requiredPhysical DemandsMedium Work*:Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently