Number of Job Openings Available: 1
Date Posted: August 14, 2024
Department: 38023010 Unity Intensive Care Unit
Shift: Day/Night (United States of America)
Shift Length: 12 hour shift
Hours Per Week: 36
Union Contract: MNA-13-Unity RN
Weekend Rotation: Every 3rd
Job 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 interventions.
Key Position Details:
- Benefit Eligible
- 12-hour day/night shift
- Every 3rd weekend
Job Description:
Principle Responsibilities:
- Assessment:
- Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
- Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
- Uses appropriate evidence-based assessment techniques in data collection.
- Diagnosis:
- Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
- Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.
- Outcomes Identification:
- Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
- Planning:
- Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
- Implementation:
- Implements the identified plan.
- Evaluation:
- Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the outcome.
- Quality of Practice:
- Participates in quality improvement activities related to nursing practice.
- Education:
- Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
- Professional Practice Evaluation:
- Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards.
- Collegiality:
- Contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues.
- Collaboration:
- Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
- Ethics:
- Acts in an ethical manner.
- Research:
- Integrates research findings in practice.
- Resource Utilization:
- Incorporates factors related to safety and effectiveness in planning patient care.
- Leadership:
- Provides leadership in the professional practice setting.
- Environmental Health:
- Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
- Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role):
- Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation.
- Preceptor (only when acting in this role):
- Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs.
Job Requirements:
- Associate's or Vocational degree required
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- 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 required
Physical Demands:
Medium Work*: Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently.
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