Advanced Clinician RN - Surgery - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Night Shift - Full Time

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Hours:

Shift Start Time: 6 PM Shift End Time: 6:30 AM AWS Hours Requirement: 12/36 - 12 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: As Needed On-Call Required: Yes

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $67.860 - $78.740 - $89.620

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO. Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

Job Summary:

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of nursing school
• 2 Years recent pertinent clinical experience as defined by the CBA
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing - REQUIREDAHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

Essential Functions:

• Clinical advancement • Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care. • Demonstrates leadership in the identification, resolution and evaluation of system/practice/work flow issues. • Sought out for critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making skills. • Demonstrates an intuitive grasp of a clinical situation and without wasteful consideration to alternatives, focuses on problem-solution. • Able to identify high priority potential crises before significant clinical changes are evident. • Clinical judgment and decision making • Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety. • Recognized resource, leader and problem-solver for staff in and outside of the unit. • Identified as a clinical expert. Serves as a clinical resource and contributes to professional development/education of other staff members. • Integrates care with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate patients access to needed resource from preadmission to discharge. • Applies nursing principles in the provision of science-based comprehensive care delivery to identified patient population. • Assumes leadership role in interdisciplinary conference by initiating, facilitating and communication. • Uses critical thinking skills to individualize information, to analyze it and draw conclusion. • Thinks creatively to generate and evaluate ideas for making decisions and solving problems for the patient/family. • Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures. • Supports documentation process helping others to understand regulatory and legal requirements an implications. • Clinical leadership • Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team. • Coaches health care team member on how to determine if delegated task is appropriately assigned, how to accept a delegated task, and each individuals accountability for performing and completing the task. • Uses judgment and problem solving skills to assess appropriateness of physicians orders, is unafraid to question orders and to initiate, redirect and resolve issues. • Assists staff in developing communication skills that result in customer satisfaction. • Guides staff in new patient situations and/or those unfamiliar to the nurse or not commonly seen in the department. • Helps coworkers improve performance. • Transfers knowledge and mentors others to improve clinical practice. • Applies expert nursing principles that will directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patient, family, physicians, and staff. • Assists with matching patients needs with staff ability and/or developmental needs. • Organized and able to clearly present a formal class or presentation by using words, examples, pictures or graphics. • Nurse-patient/family relationship • Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family. • Recognized as a resource to staff for regulatory issues including EMTALA, Durable Power of Attorney, Organ Donations, Consents and Withdrawal of Life Support. • Identifies ethical dilemmas and takes appropriate steps to resolve issues in a timely manner. • Uses alternative and complex strategies to interact with and create a therapeutic relationship with patients and families who are perceived as challenging by others. • Teaches these strategies to other health care providers. • Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness. • Is recognized as a resource for others in developing teaching plans and modifying teaching strategies.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrates advanced competencies in all areas of the unit skills.
• Serves as a role model for professional behavior through participation in committees.
• Assumes the responsibility of resource role and teaching role.
• Assumes the responsibilities of charge nurse and preceptor for new graduates and/or new orientees to unit.
• Demonstrates leadership skills, which allow the nurse to positively influence the practice of others.
• Provides expert direct patient care and integrates care with multidisciplinary team to facilitate patient access to needed resources from pre-admission to discharge.
• Demonstrates expert nursing principles that directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patients, family, physicians and staff.
• Transfers knowledge and mentors others to improve clinical practice.
• Demonstrates complex problem solving and the use of critical thinking skills.
• Recognizes inconsistencies in patient care and manages potential complications.
• Applies knowledge, expertise and leadership to achieve outcomes for unit/department/hospital/organization/community.
• Complies with all regulatory and accreditation standards.
• May participate in the process of evidence-based research utilization.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills.
• Serves as a role model for professional behavior through participation in committees.

Employee Benefits:

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

Relocation Incentives:

Qualified external new hire candidates may be eligible for a $5,000 Relocation incentive. New Hire Relocation Assistance: Must be relocating from 100+ miles outside of San Diego to be eligible. The following are not eligible for the relocation hiring incentive: Current Sharp employees, Rehires/Reinstates that are rejoining the organization less than 12 months from last date of employment with Sharp Healthcare, In-state new hires. Employee referral incentive eligibility: Referral must list the name of the Sharp employee that referred them on the job application. External referrals only. If referring a former Sharp employee - must be more than 12 months since last date of employment with Sharp Healthcare at the time of referral.