Job Category:

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

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

About the Role:

Job Summary

The Trauma Surgical Unit is a 20-room nursing unit. On Trauma Surgical, as part of a verified Level 1 Trauma Center, exceptional care is delivered to a vast array of trauma and acute care surgery patients, including, but not limited to:

• Trauma surgery and related multi-system injuries

• Orthopedic trauma and related injuries

• Emergent and scheduled acute care surgery

• Other Neurosurgical and Vascular surgical patients, as well as limited medical overflow

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: 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 and appropriate teaching to patients and families to meet regulatory requirements and effectively prepare them for the episode of care as well as transitions from one level of care to another
  • Develops delegation skills as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
  • Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way by integrating knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout