Registered Nurse (RN), Ortho OR, Part-Time (Day Shift)
Company: Lancaster General Health
Location: Lancaster
Posted on: February 2, 2025
Job Description:
Summary
Job Description Job Description
LOCATION: Lancaster, PA
HOURS: Part-Time, Day Shift. 20 hours/week. Four, 5 hour
shifts/week Monday-Friday (days fluctuate based on the needs of the
Unit). Start time 11:00am. Weekend, holiday, on-call rotation
requirements to be discussed at time of interview.
SIGN ON BONUS: $15,000 Sign on Bonus for RNs with at least 15
months of RN experience. Based on FTE status.
POSITION SUMMARY: Assume responsibility and accountability as
defined by the American Nurses Association standards of nursing
practice. The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice is a
newly licensed new to practice RN or RN with less than 15 months of
experience that demonstrates basic safe practice within the
organizational professional practice model. The Clinical Nurse 1
New to Practice/Apprentice seeks guidance to integrate concepts,
knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet standards for competent
professional nursing practice. The Clinical Nurse 1 New to
Practice/Apprentice exhibits Penn Medicine's experience standards
which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional
practice competency domains.
The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice is accountable for
the provision of direct care to patients who may range in age from
infancy to the elderly and demonstrates within the competency
domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice
and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care,
Professionalism, Safety, Teamwork and Technology/Informatics.
The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice works closely with
the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the
coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on
developing the knowledge and skills necessary to provide
individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural,
educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned
patients.
The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice requires
consultation with more experienced clinicians and benefits from
feedback while demonstrating growth in the ability to care for
increasingly complex patients. The nurse demonstrates how nursing
practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals and
the care delivery system. The nurse complies with all regulations
and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.
The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice must complete all
Clinical Nurse 1 competencies and is expected to advance to the
Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague level by 18 months of professional
practice.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability
(with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following
duties:
- Incorporates the Lancaster General Health mission, vision and
values into planning patient care.
- Functions as an independent and interdependent member of the
health care team as defined in unit based Plan for Provision of
Care.
- Performs patient assessments, focusing on physiologic,
psychological, and cognitive functions. Evaluates progress toward
attainment of outcomes and adapts the plan of care based on
recognized trends and changes. Collects and manages
comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or the
situation.
- Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or
issues. Formulates age-appropriate and culturally and ethically
sensitive plan of care
- Implements care in a knowledgeable manner and coordinates
patient care across several disciplines and among caregivers.
- Provides leadership to other members of the team by effectively
communicating expected standards of care and encouraging and
supporting team members and their contributions.
- Demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to our values
of privacy, quality, respect, service and teamwork.
- Assigns, delegates, and supervises other employees and
intervenes as appropriate to assure that the plan of care is
carried out, continuity of care is provided and that established
outcomes are achieved through availability and appropriated
utilization
of human, material and financial resources.
- Educates patients about healthy practices and treatment
modalities.
- Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of
nursing practices. Utilizes technology where appropriate.
- Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and
impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing
services.
SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary
to the primary duties listed above:
- Manages rapidly changing situations following established
protocols, coordinating and accessing appropriate health team
members and resources, and documenting events.
- Participates in process improvement activities with an emphasis
on increasing continuity in the nurse to patient relationship,
minimizing rework and redundancies; constantly seeks ways to
improve processes, increase efficiency, finds solutions to
current situations or develops new methods and procedures.
- Completes mandatory education and training that includes review
of age-specific needs, caring behaviors, and interpersonal skills
as defined by unit based Plan for Provision of Care.
- Maintains a safe working environment through compliance with
established evidence-based practice policies and procedures and
timely reporting of safety variances.
- Projects pride in their work as exhibited in day-to-day
interactions with staff, coworkers, patients and all those they
come in contact with.
- Seeks experiences and formal and independent learning
activities to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills
and knowledge.
- Provides supervision, including guidance, counseling and
mentoring, to targeted peers and subordinates to enhance the
learning experiences and improve the professional practice
environment within the designated work setting.
- Participates in the employee performance process related to
peers and subordinate team members; address employee problems,
complaints, disputes or requests as the first level of supervision;
evaluates their performance post hire.
- Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position
as required.
- Other duties as assigned. JOB REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- RN Licensure is required, issued by the PA Board of Nursing or
a Temporary Practice Permit until an RN license is obtained.
- Individuals with Temporary Practice Permits must sit for their
NCLEX within 60 days of starting in their RN role.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred. For Magnet
designated RN positions, BSN or higher level nursing degree is
required for incumbents based upon previously established
parameters; or within three (3) years of placement in position for
incumbents who started after 07/01/2020.
- A graduate registered nurse may only practice professional
nursing under supervision and if the graduate registered nurse
holds a current temporary practice permit. Supervision means that a
licensed registered nurse is physically present in the area or unit
where the graduate registered nurse is practicing.
- All Clinical Nurse 1 RN's will be required to successfully
complete the Nurse Residency Program.
- CPR Certification - American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life
Support, formerly Healthcare Provider (AHA Heart Saver AMA CPR/BLS
certification required within 30 days of hire.
- A health care provider in good standing with Medicare,
Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs,
i.e.not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any
other federal or state health insurance program.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- As outline in unit based Plan for Provision of Care. COGNITIVE
REQUIREMENTS
Attention/Concentration: The following level of ability is
essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current
experience and reject others.
- The position requires the ability to attend to a specific
stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental
stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental
detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or
irrelevant stimuli. The attention skills required are generally
considered to be automatic passive, but focused with an intact
capacity for select perception.
New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is
essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material.
- The position requires that an individual be able to learn new
tasks quickly and effectively. Job requirements change frequently.
The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved
instructions is mandatory.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following
level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in
order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from
past experience or imaginative thought.
- The position deals with issues or problems that often require
thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions.
Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and
solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to
apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve
practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in
situations where only limited standardization exists.
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