Nurse Emeritus

POSITION SUMMARY

The Nurse Emeritus is an experienced registered nurse, who works to support the delivery of patient services, through mentorship and coaching of new to practice nurses. The Nurse Emeritus establishes a caring relationship with a novice nurse as a trusted counselor, guide, role model, and teacher, while providing opportunities for personal and career development, growth, and support to the less experienced individual. The nurse possesses and demonstrates advanced skills and expertise in the clinical setting.

 

The Nurse Emeritus essential functions include:

 

• Interacts with co-workers, patients, their family/designated care partner(s) and other staff consistent with the mission, vision, and values of AtlantiCare.
• Recognizes the patients, their family/designated care partner(s) in providing safe, compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's personal preferences, priorities, needs, and cultural beliefs and values.
• Assists with assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, evaluating and if necessary, delegating patient care assigned to the novice nurse.
• Assists novice nurse to collaborate with physicians, medical professionals and other staff to ensure quality of care.
• Creates an environment of belonging and inclusion.
• Demonstrates effective critical thinking, problem solving, and conflict management to achieve desired outcomes.

 

The Nurse Emeritus utilizes the nursing care process consistent with their license and/or certification including initiation of culturally competent continuum of care including inpatient, outpatient and community settings.

The Nurse Emeritus is responsible to oversee any necessary coordination of the interdisciplinary plan of care and provides for its consistency with the medical treatment plan. The patient care process includes:

• Assessment - an orderly process consisting of the identification, gathering and organization of subjective and objective data pertaining to the patient/family/significant other, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual and cultural.
• Planning - an organized step in the process that consists of the identification of actual or potential problems and desired outcomes (goals) that result in a documented plan of care. The plan of care provides direction for the patient/family/significant other and interdisciplinary team.
• Intervention - the specific interventions or orders that are implemented consistent with the plan of care and medical treatment plan.
• Evaluation - a step in the process that involves determining the effectiveness of the interventions in achieving the plan of care and determining the conclusions concerning the achievement or lack of achievement of desired outcomes. The evaluation may initiate the need for reassessment and revisions to the problems, goals, plan of care, and interventions. This step provides for documentation of required actions. Based upon findings identified during assessment and reassessment:
• Patients have problems identified and prioritized relative to biophysical, psychological, environmental, self-care, educational and social status.
• Goals are identified consistent with the problem to provide direction for patient care and health promotion.
• Education is consistent with the identified problem and associated goals and is seen as critical to creating an environment that promotes patient empowerment
• Employee may be required to perform Limited Laboratory Services to include patient identification and preparation for specimen collection, processing samples for testing, performing required quality control testing and instrument maintenance and function checks, monitoring, recording and reporting tests results to clinicians to include critical values, and maintaining competency/certification of the aforementioned tasks and duties.

 

All patient care activities are administered according to standards, procedural guidelines and organizational policy.

 

The Nurse Emeritus actively supports performance improvement initiatives and provides leadership to other members of the patient care team. By participating in educational activities, the Nurse Emeritus assumes responsibility for continued professional and personal growth.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/LICENSE:

• Graduate of an ac