Provides professional nursing services by:
- Performing the priority (high risk, high frequency) technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
- Establishing and/or revising priorities for job/patient care activities based on the acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, consideration for other department or staff priorities, timelines and plans.
- Responding to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individuals physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
- Advocating for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes.
- Maintaining accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions. Bases actions and decisions on scientific principles/logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice/protocols, and organizational values.
- Seeking supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently
- Using internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
Provides information to and directs others to provide quality patient care by:
- Developing or revising a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data. Includes measurable goals/outcomes; reflects values, preferences and limitations of patient and/or family; identifies interventions to achieve outcomes/goals; addresses pertinent physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning problems/needs.
- Initiating or maintaining interventions to assure continuity of safe-effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.
- Modifying, continuing or discontinuing interventions, goals, or time frames, according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.
- Documenting, consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results and outcomes of interventions.
- Using interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team in order to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved.
- Delegating to other staff members based upon acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, collective needs of patients, families and unit. Maintains accountability for achieving appropriate outcomes/goals associated with delegated acts.
Performs other functions to maintain personal competence and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the department by:
- Maintaining awareness of advances in clinical specialty.
- Contributing to the departments ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer focused-service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work.
- Contributing to the development of co-workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance and direct feedback.
- Following through and completing other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Associate complies with the following organizational requirements:
- Attends and participates in department meetings and is accountable for all information shared.
- Completes mandatory education, annual competencies and department specific education within established timeframes.
- Completes annual employee health requirements within established timeframes.
- Maintains license/certification, registration in good standing throughout fiscal year.
- Direct patient care providers are required to maintain current BCLS (CPR) and other certifications as required by position/department.
- Consistently utilizes appropriate universal precautions, protective equipment, and ergonomic techniques to protect patient and self.
- Adheres to regulatory agency requirements, survey process and compliance.
- Complies with established organization and department policies.
- Available to work overtime in addition to working additional or other shifts and schedules when required.
Commitment to Beacon's six-point Operating System, referred to as The Beacon Way:
- Leverage innovation everywhere.
- Cultivate human talent.
- Embrace performance improvement.
- Build greatness through accountability.
- Use information to improve and advance.
- Communicate clearly and continuously.