Job Category:

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Morning - Evening

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the Role:

Braselton’s Medical Intermediate Care (IMC) and Progressive Cardiac Care (PCCU) is Growing!

Soon to be 24-bed unit with all private rooms. As a Medical IMC and PCCU unit, care is provided for a variety of intermediate care medical patients and progressive cardiac care patients including but not limited to:

• General Medical Patients requiring more frequent monitoring
• Patients requiring more frequent monitoring, which may include advanced respiratory support such as BiPap, HiFlo Oxygen, and Vapotherm
• Endocrine Emergencies requiring more frequent monitoring
• Gastroenterology requiring more frequent monitoring
• Alcohol withdrawal with CIWA score <26
• Chest Pain
• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Stable Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Heart Failure
• Dysrhythmias
• Patients requiring administration of specific cardiac drugs

Services provided include:

• Central Venous Pressure (CVP) Monitoring
• Removal of arterial and venous sheaths
• Chest tube care and management
• Arterial site management
• Epidural/PCA management
• Tracheostomy care
• Cardiac and hemodynamic monitoring

Job Summary

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data.  Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team.  For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.  Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes.  Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.  

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

• Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

• Other:

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN

• Preferred Educational Requirements:

• 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 competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:

• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.

• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility 

• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum

• Positively im