Nursing Jobs in Torresdale, PA

RN-OR Cardiac Surgery

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? Entity: Penn Medicine Doylestown Health Department: CVOR Location: 595 West State Street, Doylestown Pa 18901 Hours: Full Time 6am-2:30pm Monday-Friday, Call Requirement Job Summary: To provide professional nursing care in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act, to collaborate with the physician's medical plan, and to execute the objectives and the policies of the hospital. Accountabilities : • 1. Assesses, plans, implements, documents, coordinates, and manages patient care according to department and hospital standards and giving consideration to age-specific accommodations. • a. Utilizes the nursing process for patients assigned to his/her care. • b. Maintains the computerized intraoperative record based on nursing assessment, the medical plan of care, and patient need. • c. Provides patient care, which demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of normal physiology and disease pathophysiology, appropriate nursing and medical interventions and a knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the lifespan. • d. Implements patient plan of care based on evidence-based practice. • e. Ensures appropriate completion of chart and other documentation including computer entry. • f. Ensures that no unapproved abbreviations are used when documenting on patient’s medical record. • g. Demonstrates appropriate skill in utilization of the computer for automated order entry, data retrieval, medication administration, nursing care planning and intervention and interdepartmental communication as determined by defined access levels. • h. Demonstrates initiative and self-direction in completion of assigned responsibilities in accordance with department needs. • i. Maintains competency in scrub and circulating duties and strives to improve upon areas of weakness as needed. • j. Adheres to hospital and AORN standards in promoting patient safety and prevention of surgical site infections. • k. Assists patients physically by providing physical support through pushing, pulling, lifting, reaching, turning, kneeling, standing, sitting and balancing, and psychologically by providing emotional intervention. • l. Demonstrates ability to perform with clinical proficiency in crises and medical emergencies. • 2. Communicates and collaborates with patients, physicians, family members and other health care disciplines in order to achieve excellence in patient care during hospitalization. • a. Utilizes effective interpersonal skills including interaction with staff through understanding, talking, hearing, seeing and listening. • b. Involves patient in all aspects of the plan of care, serving as advocate when necessary. • c. Consistently and continuously communicates, consults and shares pertinent information regarding changes in patient status and patient care. • d. Uses interpersonal communication techniques that show a willingness to accept and give constructive feedback for the purpose of promoting professional excellence. • e. Effectively communicates pertinent patient information to relief personnel and to post-operative care unit. • f. Demonstrates leadership skills in team building and interpersonal relationships to create a cohesive and productive environment. • g. Recognizes the existence of cultural differences and utilizes appropriate resources available throughout the hospital to respond to the needs of the adult and geriatric patient. • h. Follows staffing guidelines. In the interest of patient care, responds to changes or needs within the CVOR by cooperating with staff rotation and on-call assignments, including weekends and holidays. • 3. Promotes patient safety through adherence to protocols, policies, procedures, evidence-based guidelines and Joint Commission national Patient Safety Goals. • a. Maintains safety precautions while providing patient care including infection control isolation, patient/bed positioning, restraint utilization, skin care, patient/specimen transport, physical environment, fall prevention, and work injury prevention. • b. Identifies patient using name and birth date upon admission to the CVOR. • c. Participates in “Time-out” prior to incision and documents appropriately. • d. Maintains equipment in good working order, reports equipment failure, and initiates corrective action. • e. Labels all medications as appropriate on and off the sterile field. • f. Safely handles various types of drugs and body fluids using knowledge of appropriate standard precautions. • 4. Actively participates in and supports departmental and organizational quality initiatives and goals. • a. Identifies professional goals, which reflect own strengths and weaknesses and seeks assistance for improvement of performance. • b. Attends and participates in meetings according to department standards. • c. Supports and participates in department, hospital, and evidence-based care quality initiatives, including core measures. • d. Participates as a team member or in workgroups on department, hospital and/or ISLT evidence-based care quality initiatives. • 5. Maintains clinical competency according to unit-specific standards. • a. Demonstrates competency in maintaining specific technological skills required in the CVOR. • b. Completes required annual hospital education as per hospital policy. • c. Maintains technological competence through practice and ongoing participation in in-services and formalized professional conferences. • d. Recognizes legal responsibilities and functions within limitations as specified by the Pennsylvania Nurse Practice Act. • 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 Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree-BSN, Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing Cardiovascular or General Operating Room or Accredited Perioperative Program Current RN licensure by the State Board of Nursing, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certified in BLS & ACLS required 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.

RN

Mother-Baby

5 days ago

FT Nights Clinical Nurse 2 Postpartum @ PAH

Penn Medicine Philadelphia, PA

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? Postpartum unit is located on 4/5/6 Preston at Pennsylvania Hospital. There is a complement of 18 private patient rooms on each of the three connected floors. The newborn observation area on 5 Preston provides transitional and time-out care to term, healthy newborns, as well as, care to boarder babies requiring additional therapies authorized to be done in the term nursery. There is emphasis on the support and care of the breastfeeding mother using Baby Friendly standards as the foundation of care. The unit emphasizes teaching and incorporates familial support in areas such as infant care, car seat safety and breastfeeding. Patient care needs are assessed and met through a multidisciplinary team approach utilizing the Relationship Based Care Model. Patient care needs are determined collaboratively by the healthcare team and patient. Individual birth plans and specific needs are managed individually while providing a standard of care that supports the family unit. Nursing staff, with the support of Lactation Consultants, handle routine and complex breastfeeding issues through individual consultation, class, support groups and warmline responses. Written literature and individual direct demonstration are provided to ensure that family needs and concerns are addressed. Although located on three separate floors this is one continuous unit and staff function as one unit. More acute postpartum care includes: - Pre-eclampsia management - Hemorrhage - Infection - Extensive perineal repair -Types of complexity for well newborns include: - Management of IV antibiotics - Management of hyperbillirubin / phototherapy - Glucose stabilization - Thermoregulation Summary: 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 as specified in the Clinical Nurse I New to Practice/Apprentice position description addendum. The Clinical Nurse 1 New to Practice/Apprentice exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies 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 (Definitions listed below). 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. See addendum. 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 Registered Nurse - PA (Required) Education or Equivalent Experience: Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required) Education Specialization: BSN degree from an accredited school of nursing Equivalent Experience And Less than 15 months experience required 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.