Clinical Nurse 2 - Per Diem - Echo Lab at HUP

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Schedule requirements: 

Must work a minimum of 2 shifts in a 6-week period, depending upon unit needs as determined by the Nurse Manager.

Required to work either the day before or the day after 1 Winter Holiday and 1 Summer Holiday. 

JOB SUMMARY

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Clinical Nurse 2 position description addendum.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly.

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague demonstrates within the competency domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork (Definitions listed below).

The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding 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 2 Colleague seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice. 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.

Accountabilities

Professional Practice Competency Domains Definitions

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

Evidence Based Practice and Research

The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.

Leadership

The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.

Person and Family Centered Care

The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.

Professionalism

The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.

Safety

The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.

Technology/Informatics

The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.

Teamwork

The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization.

UPHS Organizational Behavioral Competencies

• Being Resilient
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Decision Quality
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness
• Ensures Accountability
• Instills Trust
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Manages Ambiguity
• Manages Conflict
• Nimble Learning
• Patient Focus
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Persuades
• Problem Solving/Critical Thinking
• Self-Development
• Tech Savvy
• Values Differences

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Experience

Req	Pref	Education Level	Major/Area of Study and/or Experience	Experience Details
X	Bachelor's Degree	BSN from an accredited school of nursing	More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

Licenses, Registrations, and Certifications

Req	Pref	Licenses/Registrations/Certifications
X	Pennsylvania RN licensure (RN)
X	BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association

Skills and Abilities

Req	Pref	Skill/Ability
X	Ability to perform functions as described in the position description according to the clinical level
X	Must be able to visit patients in various geographic areas as determined by agency contracts – For HCHS Only

Standard Work Environment

Work Environment Selection

Physical Demands

Activity	Never	Rarely (0–10%)	Occasional (11–35%)	Frequent (36–70%)	Constant (70%+)
Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching	X
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, and ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms	X
Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet	X
Fine Manipulation: Able to manipulate objects while maintaining a grasp at all times	X
Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm	X
Keyboard operation: Amount of time typing on computer keyboard	X
Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees	X
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction	X
Repetitive Foot Control: For example as when using sink pedals or driving	X
Repetitive Use of Hands: The act of repeating the same hand motion	X
Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time	X
Sitting: Remaining in a position in which one's weight is supported by one's buttocks rather than one's feet and one's back is upright for sustained periods of time	X
Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine	X
Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another	X

Lift/Carry

Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.

Weight Category	Never	Rarely (0–10%)	Occasional (11–35%)	Frequent (36–70%)	Constant (70%+)
Sedentary: 5 pounds and under	X
Light: 6–10 pounds	X
Moderate: 11–49 pounds	X
Heavy: 50 pounds and over	X

Push/Pull

Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward or to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Weight Category	Never	Rarely (0–10%)	Occasional (11–35%)	Frequent (36–70%)	Constant (70%+)
Sedentary: 5 pounds and under	X
Light: 6–10 pounds	X
Moderate: 11–49 pounds	X
Heavy: 50 pounds and over	X

Specific Needs

Activity	Never	Rarely (0–10%)	Occasional (11–35%)	Frequent (36–70%)	Constant (70%+)
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound	X
Seeing: Vision for near, far, peripheral, depth, and color	X
Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly	X
Driving or Equipment Operation: Driving a car, van, cart, or truck and/or operating heavy equipment	X

Additional Exposure

• Contact with chemical, biological, radiological materials, noise and other materials, substances or particulates that may require the use of personal protective equipment. 

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.