Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

Our RN Residency helps new graduates transition into their nursing practice by emphasizing orientation, education, and evidence-based practice. The program allows Residents to engage in didactic learning, state-of-the-art simulations, and training with a dedicated preceptor.  Step into your career at NGHS.   

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About the Role:

Job Summary

Ortho/Neuro is a 26-bed nursing unit with two rooms equipped to be utilized as negative pressure rooms and 2 rooms equipped with bariatric ceiling lifts. As an Orthopedic Neurosurgery unit, care is rendered to a variety of patients including but not limited to:

• Elective orthopedic joint replacement surgeries (hip, knee, shoulder)

• Neurosurgical surgeries (neck, back, brain)

• Orthopedic trauma in times of high census

Medical overflow in times of high census Patients receive physical, emotional, spiritual and psychosocial support for themselves and their families. N4G collaborates with a Joints in Motion program which provides comprehensive pre and post op education for the total joint population.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: Graduated from an accredited nursing program and hold a current unencumbered license to practice as an RN in Georgia.

• Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree. ADN or Diploma required

• Minimum Experience: 0-1 year of RN experience – successful completion of new grad orientation or successful completion of an RN refresher course for acute care nurses

• Other:

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: National certification in clinical specialty as eligible.

• Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN

• Preferred Experience:

• Other:

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines

• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service

• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice

• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model

• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

• Transformational Leadership
  • Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and patient care
  • Makes recommendations for the improvement of clinical care and the health of the workplace
  • Developing the ability to change and demonstrate flexibility
  • Welcomes and participates in change initiatives
  • Engages and builds respectful and collaborative relationships among colleagues and other disciplines that contributes to a healthy work environment
  • Serves as an engaged member of a team supporting colleagues in service to patients and families
  • Participates in interdisciplinary rounds as department requires

  Exemplary Professional Practice
  • Applies basic nursing knowledge and skills within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
  • Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into
  consideration the individualized needs of the patient
  • Consistently documents in the patient and unit record according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and regulatory patient care requirements
  • Seeks guidance, asks clarifying questions, and speaks up for safety to continuously improve nursing practice
  • Develops critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
  • Demonstrates knowledge of Sister Simone Roach’s theory by incorporating the Seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity in caring for patients and families 
  • Demonstrates knowledge of principles of adult learning (and/or teaching children) and applies in teaching patients, families, students, and new staff
  • Provides detailed