Same Day Surgery Registered Nurse / RN

Overview

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At Emory Healthcare we fuel your professional journey with better benefits, valuable resources, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs, and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be.  We provide: 

• Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1 
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs 
• Family-focused benefits  
• Wellness incentives 
• Ongoing mentorship, development, leadership programs…. and more!  

Description

Part Time/ 20 Hours Weekly

• Adheres to high practice standards and demonstrates: desire to mentor, attention to detail, organizational and oral/written communication skills.
• Aware of and routinely applies principles of adult learning in planning education/orientation.
• Functions as a teacher, mentor, and coach in guiding, directing, and supervising the nursing practice.
• Focuses on informatics competencies, use of technologies in patient care, and patient care documentation during the orientation newly hired/transferred and as an ongoing component of nursing education in the incumbents patient care area.
• Able to provide constructive critique following an event as well as an accurate summary of performance over time.
• Skillfully communicates with the patient, the patients family, and other members of the healthcare team.
• Highly skilled clinician who provides dependable, effective and efficient care to a patient population using the nursing process. Demonstrates advanced assessment skills.
• Anticipates and understands the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes.
• Incorporates AACN Synergy Model in clinical practice.
• Frequently acts as a resource to other nurses/colleagues regarding patient care.
• Plans and implements patient care utilizing past experience and modifies plan of care to meet individual patient needs.
• Evaluates and promptly alters the plan of care when necessary.
• Anticipates patient and family learning needs and collaborates with patient/family advisory council in identifying resources regarding those needs.
• Manages time effectively and assist others with time management activities.
• Develops or revises policies and procedures for a patient population incorporating latest evidence-based research findings.
• Frequently acts as a resource to other nurses/colleagues regarding the use of various technologies, and specifically, the electronic documentation of patient care within EeMR and related health information technologies.
• Documents the nursing process accurately and in the appropriate format (e.g. computer, clinical pathway, and chart) and makes suggestions regarding changes to those processes.
• Proactively support the learning process by devising ways to expand on EeMR classroom training (e.g. developing checklists of common EeMR tasks), offering assistance proactively, and encouraging others to actively learn.
• Participate in software and usability testing and report issues to the project team so that issues can be prioritized and resolved before go-live events.
• Provide go-live support and answer questions, help nursing staff navigate through health information technologies (e.g. EeMR), and report issues to 8-Help or the nursing informatics team to support prompt resolution.
• Provide long term support of health information technologies in your clinical setting.
• Understand workflows associated with technology use in your clinical setting.
• View the demands of the EeMR Resource Nurse Preceptor role as an opportunity to advance professionally, and demonstrate commitment to using intensive behaviors to support the effective and efficient use of health information technology.
• Demonstrates competency in teaching and precepting skills.
• Tailors orientees goals according to skill level and educational /clinical background.
• Coordinates successful achievement of established goals.
• Utilizes orientation manual, preceptor manual, and EeMR user guide by assigning individual educational sections for self-study as well as for use at the bedside during scheduled clinical.
• Monitors and facilitates completion of orientee paperwork to provide up to date information on orientee's progress and development.
• Notifies Clinical Educator of any delays or problems related to achieving an orientee's goals as soon as identified to ensure immediate intervention for optimal success.
• Works effectively as a member of the interdisciplinary team, including patient/family advisors and serves as a resource to other members.
• Functions as Charge Nurse when assigned.