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

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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.  Current National Professional Certification required.

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor's Degree, BSN

• Minimum Experience: BSN with 5 years of RN experience. MSN with 3 years of RN experience. Demonstrated competence in RN III performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
  NGHS Classes attendance required: Clinical Preceptor Course, Advanced Preceptor Course, DPM Huddle Facilitation Class, Charge Nurse Development Course (ANPD Frontline Nurse Leader Program.)

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Preferred Job Qualifications

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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 III performance expectations in addition to:
  • Serves as a charge nurse and as a leader in clinical nursing practice, identifying patient- and staff-focused opportunities for improvement, participating in the peer review process, and leading the change process.
  • Participates in 2 NGMC committee/councils
  • In partnership with management, assumes formal leadership responsibilities for creating and maintaining a healthy work environment,  quality improvement, evidence-based practice, new graduate and/or new hire on-boarding,  or other key functional assignment area that enhances the quality of patient care and the practice or the practice environment

  Exemplary Professional Practice
  Demonstrates competence in RN III performance expectations in addition to:
  • Leads the unit in the application of national and organizational best practices to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
  • Identifies ethical situations within patient care or within the workforce and leads the effort to mitigate as appropriate
  • Exemplifies Sister Simone Roach’s theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into unit-based activities

  New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
  Demonstrates competence in RN III performance expectations in addition to:
  • Seeks opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team beyond clinical unit
  • Serves as a leader in clinical quality improvement and the integration of evidence-based practice in the care setting to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
  • Demonstrates knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques and leads evidence-based performance improvement initiatives on the unit.
  • Assists in Continuously assesses the environment for opportunities for clinical and workplace quality improvement. Developing  and  coordinating unit-based education, in- services, and skills validation
  • Serves as an advanced preceptor
  • Mentors and coaches clinical  preceptors
  • Assists the unit leader in setting regular clinical and workplace quality priorities

  Structural Empowerment
  Demonstrates competence in RN III performance expectations in addition to:
  • Coaches colleagues on cultural intelligence and addresses workplace horizontal  lateral violence and impairment
  • Role models selfcare techniques and resilient behavior
  • Supports and encourages Leads unit-based shared governance activities and participation
  • Actively participates in identifying and developing unit-based workplace violence reduction initiatives• 

  Empirical Outcomes
  Demonstrates competence in RN III performance expectations in addition to:
  • Serves as a unit-based champion (e.g., diabetes, falls, wound, CAUTI, CLABSI, SSI, HCAHPS, IT, etc.); completes unit- based audits and follows-up with staff accordingly to achieve positive outcomes
  • Assumes ownership and Leads unit-based activities aimed at ownership for improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit, and achieves with a focus on demonstrated year-over-year improvement in outcome metrics. Improvement
  • Leads quality of care activities utilizing A3 thinking, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice

Physical Demands

• Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time

• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

Working at NGHS means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals. 

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Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.