# RN Clinical Nurse II - Orthopedics Department **Company**: UNC Health **Location**: Smithfield, NC **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range) **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://jobs.unchealthcare.org/jobs/18439594-rn-clinical-nurse-ii-orthopedics-department?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/rn-clinical-nurse-ii-orthopedics-department-5ce0001e-99d/ ## Description Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina. 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 For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification - Registered Nurse licensure in North Carolina --- Source: [Apply at jobs.unchealthcare.org](https://jobs.unchealthcare.org/jobs/18439594-rn-clinical-nurse-ii-orthopedics-department?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)