Clinical Nurse Attending Ortho Trauma Pulmonary Inpatient Acute Care
Department: PCH-MAIN | Nursing Operations
Location: Phoenix
Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 7am-3pm
Category: Nursing
Posting #: 881941
Employee Type: Full-Time
Position Summary
Posting Note: Seeking an experienced clinical RN with at least 5 years of experience in inpatient acute care to work alongside bedside nurses on our Ortho/Trauma/Pulmonary unit. This role is day shift, Monday-Friday. Must have BSN. Must have a national certification or open to attaining one within 6 months. The incumbent will need to have leadership experience, a strong clinical skill set in inpatient acute care, change agent mentality, and passion for quality and safety. Strong clinical experience along with education, collaboration and quality/safety work is required. Pediatrics is preferred. If your passion is quality care outcomes, process improvement, and making a difference with improving evidence-based practices, while helping nurses grow and improve patient care, then this is the job for you! Full time/Exempt. No weekends! New Grads will not be considered.
The Clinical Nurse Attending is a leadership position focused on the clinical management of patients. The Clinical Nurse Attending prepares highly skilled nurses focused on improving quality and safety outcomes for patients or patient populations. The Clinical Nurse Attending assumes accountability for patient-care outcomes through the translation of evidence-based information to design, implement, and evaluate patient-care processes and models of care delivery.
Position Duties
- Clinical Expertise
- Facilitates nursing interventions based on risk anticipation and other evidence to improve healthcare outcomes.
- Assists with change initiatives to decrease or eliminate discrepancies between actual practices and identified standards of care.
- Assesses actual and anticipated health risk discrepancies in the individualized plan of care.
- Utilizes best available evidence to facilitate practice change that results in improving quality, safety and fiscally responsible outcomes.
- Utilizes performance tools (e.g., health care dashboards, reports, etc.) to access patient statistics in real-time and apply evidence-based interventions to improve patient care and promote positive outcomes.
- Coaches, delegates, and supports healthcare team members in the performance of nursing procedures and processes with a focus on safety and competence.
- Mentors and coaches new and experienced nurses and other members of the healthcare team.
- Quality Improvement and Safety
- Evaluates patient handoffs and transitions of care to improve outcomes.
- Communicates to the interprofessional healthcare team, patients, and caregivers current quality and safety guidelines and nurse-sensitive indicators.
- Functions as part of an interprofessional team by communicating, planning, and implementing care directly with other healthcare professionals.
- Promotes a culture of safety using high reliability principles.
- Information Technology and Data
- Collects and utilizes data to generate evidence for nursing practice.
- Provides input in the design of data and data resources that generate meaningful evidence for clinical practice.
- Interprets patterns and trends in data to evaluate outcomes of care and compare to other recognized benchmarks.
- Uses performance measures and information technology to assess and improve the delivery of evidence-based practices.
- Organizational and Systems Leadership
- Collaborates within the healthcare team to focus on the delivery of patient-centered care.
- Collaborates with healthcare professionals to plan, implement and evaluate improvement opportunities.
- Participates in a shared leadership model to make recommendations for improvements in care delivery.
- Collaboration and Communication
- Demonstrates a leadership role in enhancing group dynamics and managing group conflicts.
- Demonstrates professional and effective communication skills.
- Facilitates the integration of healthcare services across the continuum of care.
- Facilitates collaborative, interprofessional approaches in the coordination and evaluation of patient-centered care.
- Facilitates transitions across care settings to support patients and families to improve care outcomes.
- Advocates for patients within the healthcare delivery system.
- Health Promotion
- Engages in partnerships at multiple levels of the health system to ensure effective coordination, delivery, and evaluation of clinical prevention and health promotion interventions.
- Implements strategies for encouraging a culture of inquiry within the healthcare delivery team.
- Disseminates changes in practice and improvements to internal and external audiences.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as requested.
Position Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
Required - Master's degree in related field
Preferred
Experience
- Five or more years of related experience in a health care setting.
Required
Certifications / Licenses / Registries
- Current AZ RN license or an RN license from a compact state with multistate privileges.
Required - National certification in area of specialty or related field acquired within the first 6 months of employment.
Required - Current BLS Certification for Healthcare Provider from the American Heart Association.
Required
Special Skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and demonstrate positive customer relations.
Required
Physical Requirements & Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential
Review the physical requirements and occupational exposure/risk potential for this position.
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