QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential core function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, experience, and ability necessary to perform this job.
ESSENTIAL CORE FUNCTIONS:
· Nursing process-admission and discharge of patient, orientation of patient and family to environment, pre and post operative care
· Patient safety-identification, fall prevention, skin and wound program
· Oxygen therapy
· Documentation –computerized
· Patient/family education
· Medication reconciliation
· Chain of Command
· Physician order management
· Pain management
· Medication administration
· Blood administration
· IV therapy
· Restraint management
· Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:
A. Core Competencies:
· Service: Strives to meet expectations/needs of customers; responds to concerns with sense of urgency; seeks win-win solutions for reasonable patient/customer expectations.
· Quality/Ethics/Integrity: Seeks opportunities for improvement; prevents small problems from becoming large; pays attention to detail; follows instructions and protocol/procedures; adheres to company code of conduct; maintains integrity in all aspects of work.
· Relationships: Builds effective working relationships; finds and provides information to clarify situations; expands on original ideas; contributes own ideas; places high priority on other team members’ goals; gains team agreement to support ideas; clearly explains rationale behind ideas/goals; demonstrates sensitivity to differing cultural views and needs; meets attendance and punctuality requirements.
· Adaptability: Seeks to understand changes in work tasks/processes; actively seeks information about new tasks/processes; treats change and new tasks/processes as opportunities for learning and personal growth; speaks positively about changes to others; quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with change.
B. Job Specific: As defined in department specific competencies
EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED:
· Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma from an accredited institution required.
· Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:
· Current FL RN license required or appropriate compact licensure. If compact license held in another state, active FL RN compact license required within 90 days of hire. Advanced Nurse Practitioner license acceptable
· American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support Course (BLS or BCLS) and Certification required within 30 days*
· American Red Cross or American Heart Association Advanced Life Support Course (ALS or ACLS) and Certification (45 day grace period)*
· American Red Cross or American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Course and Certification (45 day grace period)*
*Instructor certifications interchangeable with required certifications
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED OR PREFERRED:
· 2 years hospital experience preferred
· 2 years Critical Care experience preferred
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:
· Customer service abilities including effective listening skills.
· Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment.
· Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50lbs.
· Possess the ability to work as member of a team or independently as the situation requires and to prioritize responsibilities.
CUSTOMERS SERVED: All employees, staff of Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in both clinical and non-clinical departments, including patients/families, physicians, volunteers, agency, contract, students and the community.
COMPETENCIES: The competencies identified for this position are summarized and reviewed periodically throughout employment. The required behaviors and measurement associated with core, job specific, age specific, and management (if applicable) competencies are maintained in the department education file.
PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions