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Monroeville, PA 15146 2570 Haymaker Road Company: Allegheny Health Network

Job Description

At AHN employees trust working together and place patients at the center of all they do. This 9 Hospital system, a part of Highmark Health, is transforming the future of healthcare by providing highly effective services to customers, patients, and communities. AHN has a commitment and dedication to being inclusive, valuing fresh perspectives, and offering the best growth and educational opportunities to employees.

Forbes Hospital is a 315-bed Level II trauma hospital located in the community of Monroeville. Our hospital offers the service lines of a city hospital, including trauma, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics, and psychiatry, while also building relationships across the organization in a community setting.

GENERAL OVERVIEW

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families for whom the nurse is responsible. The Registered Nurse is fully responsible for all actions as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

The registered nurse provides transformational leadership in a professional practice setting by striving to create and participate in the future of healthcare.

• Team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on the needs of the patient and skill level of the RN, LPN, or support staff.
• Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing a charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of the intervention, and predictability of the outcome.
• Provides peers with both verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues and cultivates a work environment that promotes positive employee attitudes, effective communications, trust, and collaboration.
• Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk taking is not only safe but expected, and creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability are key.
• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals.
• Participates in department-specific quality initiatives, such as EBP (Evidence-Based Practice) and population-specific initiatives.
• Assures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate, and implement a patient plan of care according to the individual needs of the patient, as prescribed by the physician, nurse, and hospital policy, including patient and family.
• Derives culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
• Analyzes the health status of the individuals and families, comparing the data with the norm when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Assesses patient reports, records, change of condition, and notifies the physician and/or supervisor and intervenes appropriately and documents accordingly.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous lifelong learning and professional development for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks both formal and independent learning activities using current research findings and other evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding ones own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Identifies areas of strength as well as areas in which professional development would be beneficial.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Places the patient at the center of everything they do by continuously evaluating and assessing patient and family satisfaction and performing as an advocate for patients and customers.
• Participates in department-specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Promotes compassionate communication that is patient and family-centered.
• Assesses for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time management skills to complete assigned duties and responsibilities within established work shifts.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum:
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance
• Certificate of Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance
• Certificate of Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting
• Current State of PA RN licensure or Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• CPR certification
• Preferred: Certification in area of specialty

DISCLAIMER

The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies. As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures, as well as all data security guidelines established within the Companys Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.

Furthermore, it is every employees responsibility to comply with the companys Code of Business Conduct, which includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, as well as company policies and training requirements. Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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