Description
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UNC Health Caldwell ED is a fast-paced environment that requires critical thinking, situational awareness, and triage and treatment skills. As a Clinical Nurse II, you will be part of a team that provides competent care to the community 24/7 for acute, life-threatening, and urgent medical conditions.
Summary: 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.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self and patients
- Evaluates patient care and communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care
- Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems
- 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 relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs
- Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care
- Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others
- Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families
- 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
Requirements:
- Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program
- Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
- One (1) year of nursing experience
Benefits:
- Competitive salary rates
- Tuition reimbursement
- Nursing Clinical Ladder for professional advancement
- Self-scheduling for flexibility
- Great benefits package