Registered Nurse (RN) - North Fulton Neurosurgery

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Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Outpatient North Fulton Neurosurgery RN:

The RN plays a critical role in our neurosurgery clinic, focused on supporting perioperative care, coordinating communication, educating patients, and helping to offload providers. The RN serves as a clinical bridge between patients, MAs, APPs, and surgeons to ensure high-quality, consistent care.

Scope Boundaries & Role Clarity

✅ RN Will Handle:

• Pre/post-op education and patient follow-up
• Suture/staple removal and wound documentation
• Surgical clearance confirmation and consent upload
• Clinical triage (messages, calls)
• Support with back pain pathway triage (flag incomplete referrals to PA)

⛔️ RN Will Not Handle:

• Prior authorizations (MAs are primary)
• FMLA/disability forms (MAs handle these)
• Imaging orders without provider delegation
• Referral navigation (unless delegated by specific providers)

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Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse Specialty functions under the direction of the Office Manager and/or Physician and is responsible for implementing the nursing process based on expanded knowledge and experience. The nurse is responsible for coordinating and providing safe patient care with an understanding and awareness of age-appropriate and culturally aware needs. The nurse addresses the patient/family's biological, emotional, developmental, psychosocial, and educational needs. The nurse is responsible for the delivery of patient care in complex situations, coordination of patient care activities, staff development, and professional self-development. The nurse is able to independently perform job functions.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
* Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice, uses analytical/critical thinking and ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes
* Provides relationship-based patient centered care that is consistent with population specific characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease, etc) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
* Always partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using such appropriate method for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report; interdisciplinary rounds; just in time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient and significant others updated and making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care.
* Practices using current clinical practice standards.
Teamwork and Collaboration
* Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc); completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
* Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
* Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care including initiating and/or leading such activities as well as, promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively supports/participates in Clinical Champion Forum at the Medical Group level. .
Professional Development and Initiative
* Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education.
* Serves as a preceptor and/or or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce; modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment
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