Job Description

RN Clinic, FT, IMA

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Job ID: 000EN6
Clinic
IMA CLINIC
Full Time - Day

Posting Description

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We believe a career is more than just a career -- it's a calling. Our teammates' "True North" is what calls them to health care; it's their passion. At North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in helping you leverage and connect that passion with a much greater purpose that impacts people you know and love.



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JOB SUMMARY

The BSN Registered Nurse at North Mississippi Health Services, Inc is a licensed registered nurse who is baccalaureate prepared and has taken courses on role development, nursing leadership, and nursing practice to strengthen their clinical decision-making skills. The BSN RN enters into direct patient care as an ADVANCE RN Level II, and has education and experiences that enable the recognition of recurrent and meaningful components of a situation, knowledge and know-how, advance planning and organizational skills. The BSN RN is responsible for providing safe, quality patient care using the nursing process, anticipating needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness, maintaining effective communication with the multidisciplinary team, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The BSN RN role requires leadership skills in prioritizing, delegating, promoting teamwork, maximizing resouces, evaluating work assignments, effective problem-solving abilities to respond to changing patient needs, and raising the awareness of evidence-based nursing practice and nursing research

JOB

FUNCTIONS

Clinical Practice:Uses the nursing process to provide safe, quality patient care, anticipates needs, recognizes recurrent and meaninful components of a situation, has knowledge and know-how to address the situation, and documents accordingly. Has effective problem-solving abilities to respond to the changing patient needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness. Works to ensure compliance with all NMHS policies and requirements as directed by the Nurse Manager and Educator.


Education:Educates patient and their family about their medical conditions and treatment. Has opportunity to be selected to participate in Preceptor Program + Those selected will complete the Preceptor Class during first year of employment. Upon completion of preceptor course and validation of competencies, serves as resource and/or preceptor for existing staff.
+ Serves as a Preceptor to ensure proper training of new employees.
+ Serves as a Preceptor for nursing students to support their knowledge base and development of clinical skills, as well as critical decision making.
+ Assists in training new Preceptors and validating new Preceptors's competencies.
Supports in raising the awareness of evidence-based nursing practice within the nursing team.

Communication:Maintains effective communication with multidisciplinary team members to provide holistic care to the patient. Maintains effective, efficient communication with medical staff pertaining to their patients and changes in the patient conditions. Attends daily huddles on each unit to ensure proper assignments and identify team members for the shift.

Customer Relations:Projects caring, friendly and helpful image to patients and other customers. Utilized the patient's communication board (white board) to identify name, date, goals, other staff and procedures or test for the day to keep the patients and families informed. Consistently complies with the NMHS behavioral standards.

Self-Development/Professional Development:Maintains competency by staying informed of changing trends in the nursing practice. Actively participates in unit specific education in coordination with the Nurse Manager or Educator. Attends annual review and unit inservice specifics within the department. Performs required continuing education hours online and in classroom. Encouraged to continued professional development and continued growth in the ADVANCE program.
Regulatory Knowledge:Complies with regulatory and accrediting agency requirements. Licensed by the Board of Nursing for the State.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Education Level

Education Details

Required/Preferred

Bachelor's Degree Registred Nurse Required




Other (Experience) Complete RN Orientation and approved unit specific checklist requirements Required

Licenses and Certifications

Licenses and Certifications

Licenses and Certifications Details

Time Frame

Required/

Preferred

RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure Must be licensed to practice as a RN Upon Hire Required


CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation Must maintain a current ACR or AHA CPR Certification Upon Hire Required


ACLS Requirement is dependent on hiring department Upon Hire Required


PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support Requirement is dependent on hiring department Upon Hire Required


ASLS Certified for Emergency Room Upon Hire Required


TB Certified is dependent on hiring department Upon Hire Required


NIH - National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification Upon Hire Preferred

Work Experience

Number of Years

Work Experience Details

Required/

Preferred

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Required/Preferred

Proficiency

Baccalaureate prepared which includes courses on role development, nursing leadership, and nursing practice to strengthen their clinical decision-making skills. Required N/A


Has education and experiences that enable the recognition of recurrent and meaningful components of a situation, knowledge and know-how, advance planning and organizational skills Required N/A


Serves as a resource for existing staff and new employees. Required N/A


Has effective problem-solving abilities to respond to the changing patient needs, promoting health and not just treating episodes of illness, Required N/A


Supports in raising the awareness of evidence-based nurisng practice with the nursing team. Required N/A


Maintains department requirements for continuing education and any specific unit requirements to provide appropriate age specific care Required N/A


Maintains effective communication and teaching skills Required N/A


Has general working knowledge of various regulatory and accrediting standards Required N/A


Has leadership skills in, delegating, promoting teamwork, anticipating needs, prioritizing and maximizing resouces, and evaluating work assignments Required N/A


Assimilates data and reports appropriately Required N/A


Orients new employees to the unit and reports progress to charge nurse or nurse manager Required N/A


Has routine contact with physicians, ancillary personnel, other nursing personnel, patients, family, visitors Required N/A


Must demonstrate effective interpersonal skills to all customers/co-workers, and in all aspects of patient care and job performance Required N/A


Serves as a Preceptor to ensure proper training of new employees Required N/A


Serves as a Preceptor for student nurses to support their knowledge base and development of clinical skills, as well as critical decision making. Required N/A


Assists in training new Preceptors and validating new Preceptors competencies Required N/A


Serves as a resource for existing staff and new employees Required N/A

SCOPE

Freedom To Act:

Problem Solving:

Impact:

Financial Responsibility:

Sales Revenue Target Responsibility: Approval Responsibility: P & L Responsibility: Assets Controlled: Controllable Expenses (e.g., Payroll and other budgeted items): Total Financial Responsibility:

Budget Responsibility

Primary Budget Responsibility: Shared Budget Responsibility:

Requirements

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The following are requirements in addition to any stated in the above description.
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Licenses

You must have the following licenses to apply:

RN Certification, Certified Pulmonary Resuscitation/Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Stroke Life Support, and TB Certification


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Education

You must have the following education to apply:

Bachelors of Nursing

You must have a Bachelors or higher