Clinical Nurse 3- Inpatient - Penn Presbyterian Medical Center / PACU

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?

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) is seeking a dedicated and skilled Clinical Nurse 3 to join our dynamic Preoperative and Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, patient-focused environment, providing exceptional care to individuals preparing for surgery and recovering from anesthesia. Our team supports a wide range of surgical specialties, including ophthalmology, vascular, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, gynecology, and more.

As part of this collaborative and highly skilled unit, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring patient safety, comfort, and readiness for surgery, as well as monitoring and supporting patients during their immediate post-operative recovery. With individualized patient ratios based on acuity and a strong emphasis on teamwork, this setting offers an engaging and supportive environment for nurses looking to advance their perioperative and critical care skills.

Join us in a state-of-the-art facility where you’ll have the opportunity to grow professionally while delivering high-quality care in a multidisciplinary setting.

Summary:

The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates and role models safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Clinical Nurse III position description addendum. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert coordinates and independently provides quality patient care through expert practice and the application of the nursing process for assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert assumes accountability for the nursing care outcomes of his or her patients and actively participates in the development and ongoing evaluation of nursing practice on his or her unit. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert 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 (Definitions listed below). The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert 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 of others to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age-appropriate considerations of assigned patients. The Clinical Nurse 3 Expert provides clinical leadership and guidance by serving as a preceptor or charge nurse and is an active member of a committee. 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.

Responsibilities:

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.

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.

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

Credentials:

Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association required.
Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
Pennsylvania RN licensure required. Certification in a National Nursing Specialty, appropriate to practice needs or patient population.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required)
Education Specialization: BSN degree from an accredited school of Nursing Equivalent Experience: •And 3+ years relevant professional nursing experience, at least 1 year of experience at the Clinical Nurse II Colleague level.

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.

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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.

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