Inpatient Unit Clinical Nurse (43491)

Under the general supervision of the Inpatient Unit Nurse Manager, Inpatient Unit clinical nurses are accountable for the coordination of care for patients and their families including, direct patient care, patient education and discharge planning. Ensures adherence to established Inpatient Unit policies, protocols, regulations, and standards. Provides nursing care, within scope of practice, to patients in accordance with standards of nursing care and providers orders. Required to ensure efficient and effective delivery of patient care in the Acute Care/Inpatient environment. Upholds the principles of Winslow Indian Health Care Center, Inc. (“WIHCC”) Vision, Mission, and Value Statements. Maintains confidentiality of all privileged information at all times.

This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintains regular attendance and punctuality.
• Provides safe, high quality patient centered care.
• Provides direct care to tribal members and service eligible patients in the Acute Care/Inpatient setting.
• Assesses and systemically collects, analyzes, and evaluates patient data related to the behavioral, physical, physiologic, and psychosocial status of the patient utilizing interview, observation, and physical examination. Works in collaboration with multidisciplinary team to implement nursing interventions and provide appropriate evidenced-based patient and family centered care.
• Executes nursing interventions, develops patient plan of care, and assists with coordination of patient care across the care continuum (i.e. inpatient, outpatient, home, skilled nursing facilities, schools) in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team; incorporating appropriate standards of care, practice, and patient outcomes.
• Delivers care in an organized and efficient manner while providing patient/family with complete information regarding typical events, common patient responses, along with any education related to plan of care to assure a timely discharge. 
• Implements safe, competent, and efficient patient care within policies, procedures and standards, and interventions as noted on the multidisciplinary plan of care. Provides care that is ethical, patient- and family-centered, culturally congruent, and evidence-based.
• Evaluates patient’s response to plan of care and research. Incorporates inpatient and discharge/home care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary plan of care.
• Utilizes data and sets priorities to continuously meet changing patient needs. Executes nursing interventions in response to data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to patient and initiates action to reduce or correct risk.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing nursing care of individual patients and families.
• Documents nursing assessment and interventions in the electronic medical record in an accurate and timely manner to reflect a comprehensive and integrated approach to patient/family care and clinical research.
• Assesses patient/family’s readiness and provides education to the patient/family accordingly. Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information to provide individualized and comprehensive teaching-learning. 
• Incorporates standards of practice and clinical practice protocols into practice to maximize clinical effectiveness. Facilitates cost control in use of material and human resources while effectively utilizing technology to support practice and efficiencies in care delivery and management of unit.
• Responds to, provides support for, and appropriately assists with multiple urgent and emergent patient care situations.
• Maintains and advocates for patient, family, visitor and personal safety.
• Works independently within scope of practice to achieve clinical outcomes, while executing delegation protocols.