RN NPD, Jewish Hospital

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Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Essential Functions:

Clinical Expert

• Serves as a role model to nursing staff in the delivery of excellent patient care for designated patient populations

• Collaborates with nursing and interdisciplinary colleagues to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to address complex patient care issues

• Assists staff with clinical decision making and priority setting

• Collaborates with leadership to develop, evaluate, and implement standards of patient care / care planning and professional practice with attention to quality, service, cost effectiveness, comfort, safety, age specific implications, and cultural competence

• Serves as a patient / family advocate, incorporating respect for and acknowledgement of cultural diversity and individual patient needs

• Promotes an environment consistent with the core concepts of Patient Centered Care, and demonstration of the core values

Learning Facilitator

• Facilitates the ongoing education, competency and professional development of the nursing staff and students to meet competency requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and appropriate accreditation standards

• Coordinates onboarding curriculum for newly hired nursing department employees

• Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in competency based educational programs, utilizing current standards, regulations, and evidenced based resources

• Collaborates in the development or modification of patient education materials, as appropriate

• Collaborates with stakeholders to assess learning needs for clinical staff, designs and implements programs and competency strategies to address identified learning needs

• Incorporates principles of adult learning and evidence-based education in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and competency programs

• Assists others in developing clinical reasoning skills

• Participates in learning technologies via simulation, LMS, virtual classroom, and multimedia

• Communicates effectively in visual, oral, and written form and demonstrates effective presentation skills

• Facilitates initial provider and renewal courses for BLS, ACLS, PALS and/or NRP as appropriate for area

• Challenges existing practice when not aligned with current best practices

Development of Self and Others

• Maintains affiliation with professional organizations

• Obtains and maintains professional nursing certification

• Fosters attainment of professional development and certification for bedside nursing staff through mentoring, classes, programs, and study groups

• Collaborates and supports clinical student rotations in area of responsibility

• Promotes and role models lifelong learning

Leader

• Strives for congruence between educational activities and organization mission and goals

• Demonstrates support for professional organizations and excellence in professional practice

• Serves as a professional role model

• Integrates ethical principles in all areas of clinical practice

• Demonstrates the value of nursing professional development in assisting with the achievement of unit, facility and organizational goals

• Assists in the fiscal and administrative operations through cost effective use of resources

Consultant / Facilitator

• Serves as an educational consultant and/or facilitator to outside institutions as well as hospital committees, task forces, and projects

• Maintains involvement in professional, community, and clinical specialty activities

• Serves as a consultant to clinical staff, physicians, administration, Nursing school programs, and the public for clinical education and the clinical nursing care of hospitalized patients

Change Agent

• Identifies and supports needed opportunities for change

• Develops programs that assist attendees to embrace change as a desired process to support best practice

• Challenges existing practice when not aligned with current best practices

• Demonstrates flexibility

Champion for Scientific Inquiry

• Expands the scientific base of nursing practice by initiating and/or participating in continuous quality improvement and evidence-based practice activities and/or research studies

• Critically analyzes current nursing research methods and outcomes for inclusion in the curriculum content of education to support patient care

• Incorporates current research findings into educational activities

• Supports and demonstrates validated evidence-based practice

• Disseminates research findings though clinical presentations and publications

Other Functions:

• Maintain compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

A Note on Required Qualifications:

Master's degrees in nursing, leadership or education will be acceptable. Matriculated candidates actively enrolled in a master’s program with scheduled completion within specified timeframe may be considered.

UofL Health will accept a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) from the NCSBN in lieu of a Kentucky Nursing License, per the KBN.

ANCC Specialty certification is required within 6 months of hire.

ACLS, PALS, and/or Neonatal Resuscitation Program completion may be required based on area of service.

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