RN Clinical Nurse II - Orthopedics Department

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Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

4th Floor Surgical/Orthopedics/Joint Center Description UNC Johnston Fourth floor Surgical unit is a 33 private bed postoperative unit. We have a Joint Center on one of our wings for our Total Joint Patients. Fourth floor is a fast past unit that provides care to postoperative patients that have had Total Joint and other Orthopedic, Urology, Gynecology, General and Vascular surgical surgeries. It is a great unit to gain experience in Chest tubes, Colostomies, NG Tubes, Wound Vacs, and post-surgical care and for new nurses to gain a foundation to grow in their career. The 4th floor Leadership team is focused on Teamwork and positive co-worker recognition for staff as well as recognition from patient and family feedback.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn
• Identifies expected patient outcomes
• Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care
• Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care
• Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues
• Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations
• Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities
• Effectively uses communication systems
• Participates in promoting cost-effective care
• Gives feedback to co-workers
• Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all
• Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs
• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems
• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice
• Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability