Registered Nurse Wound Care Clinic Expanded Role

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The RN Clinical Expanded II is responsible for identifying, coordinating, and evaluating projects and assignments. This position provides clinical expertise, consultation, education and research to their designated area or specialty focus. This position serves as a change agent by accepting and facilitating change. The incumbent is proactive and assumes a clinical leadership position.

Posting Specifics

• Shift Details: Full-Time: 40 hours per week, 4 days per week.
• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Unit/Location: Primary Children's Lehi
• Additional Details: You will be working both inpatient and outpatient.

Job Essentials
Assess:
Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate).
Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, and others.
Plan:
Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).
Implement:
Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care, and professional licensure provisions.
Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.
Evaluate:
Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction.
Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
Professionalism:
Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others.
Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice: complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.
Clinical Leadership:
Provides clinical expertise in the specialty area and is a pathfinder in the identification and development of quality patient care delivery.
Coordinates and implements Clinical Program initiatives and processes and monitors outcomes.
Develops and implements department or specialty care area projects or programs as identified.
Coordinates policy development with corporate-wide initiatives. Ensures and initiates standardization and development of department protocols, policies, and procedures for patient care delivery.
Consultation / Liaison:
Serves as a department or specialty care area representative on committees or task forces relating to area of expertise.
Serves as a consultant and liaison to healthcare team members, patients, families & community.
Education:
Acts as a resource, consultant, and mentor to staff and Education Consultant within department or specialty care area.
Performs needs assessment of staff working with specialty patients. Coordinates with Education Consultant to facilitate the development and implementation of in-services related to this patient population.
Research:
Utilizes current research to improve nursing practice and to guide the development of standards for nursing care of specialty patients.
Maintains a global perspective of the changing health care environment, at the unit, hospital, local, and national level.

Minimum Qualifications

• (Applicants must either have required additional certifications (e.g. ACLS, PALs, NRP) upon hire or must obtain them within a specified timeframe determined by service line and department guidelines.)
• Experience in assigned clinical area.
• Current RN License in state of practice.
• RNs hired or promoted into this role need to have or obtain their BSN within three years of hire or promotion.
• Leadership and mentoring experience.
• Two years of clinical nursing experience.
• BLS Certification for healthcare providers.
• Unit specific certification as required (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.

Physical Requirements:

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Location:

Primary Childrens at Lehi

Work City:

Lehi

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$36.98 - $54.72

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