Note: If you are CURRENTLY employed at Children's and/or have an active badge or network access, STOP here.  Submit your application via Workday using the Career App (Find Jobs).

Work Shift

Work Day(s)

Shift Start Time

Children’s is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. We’re committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children’s.

Experience

• 1 year RN experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Epic
• Previous cardiac experience

Education

• Graduation from accredited school of nursing

Certification Summary

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of employment
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Pediatric Emergency Assessment Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS) within 1 year of employment as required by department

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• No minimally required knowledge, skills, or abilities

Job Responsibilities

Practice (Caring for the Patient)

• Performs nursing process across the continuum to deliver age and developmentally appropriate patient-family-centered care.
• Integrates values and language preferences into healthcare delivery through a culturally sensitive process.
• Utilizes clinical decision support tools and resources to recognize issues, prioritize care, and modify plan of care as needed.
• Utilizes appropriate documentation tools to record, measure, and retrieve healthcare data.
• Provides patient and family education appropriate for identified learning needs.
• Utilizes resources to plan and provide nursing care that is safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Demonstrates efficiency and confidence in coordinating direct care for complex patients, adjusts care plans to meet patient needs in an efficient and organized fashion, and ensures care is completed within a suitable time frame without supporting cues.

Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge)

• Participates in lifelong learning to maintain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice.
• Incorporates new knowledge into nursing practice to support desired outcomes.
• Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competence and learning.
• Self-evaluates professional practice in relation to performance, development, resiliency, and goals.
• Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance review, resulting in change in practice and role performance.
• Fosters a spirit of inquiry and seeks knowledge (e.g., informal, and formal continuing professional development) to foster continued growth and understanding of changes in the field to ensure clinical currency.

Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally)

• Provides oversight for nursing care given by unlicensed personnel while retaining accountability for patient care quality.
• Engages in ethical practices utilizing principles from The Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Maintains therapeutic and professional relationships with appropriate role boundaries.
• Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• Consults, contributes to, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
• Demonstrates investment in others through teaching/coaching/helper roles.
• Demonstrates support of shared leadership through awareness of initiatives and providing input.
• Serves as consistent resource to others at unit level to enhance direct patient care, e.g., preceptor, charge nurse, team lead, or mentor.
• Drives and effectively facilitates timely admission, transfer, and discharge process for unit, ensuring efficient and safe patient flow.

Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results)

• Integrates evidence and research findings into clinical judgement and nursing practice.
• Participates in monitoring activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety.
• Identifies and communicates hazards and errors.
• Participates in quality and process improvement activities to improve patient outcome and workflows.
• Ensures equipment is in working order to provide safe patient care.
• Demonstrates commitment and flexibility through times of change.
• Applies knowledge and sound interpretation of policies and procedures.
• Identifies practice challenges and alerts appropriate channels. 

Technical Skills

• While clinical staff may serve a specific patient population, they have the potential to care for patients within the age population range served at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Clinical staff will have competencies that will incorporate population specific guidelines. This age population includes N = Neonate (less than 30 days), I = Infant (30 days to 1 year), EC = Early Childhood (1-5 years), LC = Late Childhood (5-13 years), A = Adolescent (13-17 years), AD = Adult, ALL - all ages.
• Allocates staffing resources effectively to assist in maintaining the budget.
• Identifies and takes steps to resolve areas of noncompliance in relation to regulatory agencies including The Joint Commissions and National Patient Safety Goals.
• Participates and serves as a role model in PI process
• Acts as role model and resource for complex patient care, advanced technical skills, clinical information and patient and family education.

Critical Skills

• Demonstrates advanced assessment skills and analyzes and interprets data, altering the Plan of Care in timely manner. 
• Consistently and independently prioritizes, allocates time effectively, and delivers dependable, timely and effective patient care in a variety of setting from simple to complex. 
• Serves as resource for staff in recognizing and responding to deteriorating patient.
• Actively promotes Evidenced Based Practice and research through encouraging inquiry, performing lit search, and facilitating policy changes.   
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team for effective resource utilization and expedites involvement of the family in entire care process.
• Anticipates learning needs of the family and involves them in education process.
• Communicates using SBAR and takes initiative for follow up of identified gaps. .
• Promotes cohesive behavior among team members; actively promotes relationships with self, staff, and family.
• Resolves complex situations of conflict involving patients, families and staff and seeks appropriate resources when necessary.
• Role models customer service and service recovery.

Leadership

• Role models appropriate delegation
• Performs as proficient preceptor, mentor, team leader or charge nurse
• Seeks resources by actively consulting with the interdisciplinary team.
• Assists unit educator in developing staff as evidenced by delivering education or learning opportunities.

Mandatory Requirements

• 75% attendance at staff meetings if applicable
• Attends minimum of 15 hours job related education
• Completes mandatory education requirements as defined by unit and system by due date.
• Must be active member of a unit or system-based CHOICE council or task force.
• BLS certification within 30 days of hire
• PALS/PEARS certification within one year of hire date as required by department.

Professional Mandatory Requirements

• Completes orientation and initial assessment of competency successfully by determined due date.
• Completes mandatory education and annual competency assessment requirements as defined by unit and system by due date.
• Achieves 75% attendance at staff meetings if applicable.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.