Registered Nurse (RN)

A. Skills and Abilities: 1. Ability to correlate clinical data with patients medical and nursing care. 2. Ability to set priorities. 3. Ability to provide directions to others, that is clear, concise and promotes efficiency throughout the clinical areas of the facility. 4. Ability to communicate well with patients, families, Teammates, physicians, other members of the healthcare team, etc. 5. Recognizes legal and policy limits of individual practice. B. Clinical Quality: 1. Assesses, plans, evaluates and ensures the implementation of the patients care to achieve identified outcomes and delivers safe patient care according to facility policy and procedure. a. Assesses patient status on admission and on an ongoing basis. b. Implements appropriate standards of care based on assessment data and patients own goals. Goals are mutually set with the patient and family c. Coordinates nursing interventions to enhance achievement of expected outcomes and to ensure readiness for discharge. d. Ensures provision of patient care daily in an organized and timely manner. e. Adheres to all facility policies and procedures when providing patient care. f. Utilizes nursing care standards when planning and implementing patient care. g. Demonstrates ability to direct and provide for patient care in emergency situations. h. Assesses learning needs according to patients level of understanding and readiness to learn. i. Evaluates patients progress toward outcome achievement on an ongoing basis. j. Revises plan of care based on change in patient status and/or information gathered at change of shift k. Documents patients progress toward achievement of outcomes. l. Directs others in the implementation of the teaching plan. 2. Assumes an active role in the provision of quality nursing care for patients receiving care. a. Utilizes specialized nursing knowledge, nursing process and discriminative judgment while giving direct or indirect care. b. Analyzes nursing care provided in the facility related to the established standards of care. c. Participates in the monitoring and evaluation of nursing care provided. d. Demonstrates ability to coordinate the nursing care provided in the facility. e.[]{style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; fo "}