Job Summary: Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Essential Duties:
• Education: Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Evaluation of Care
• Identifies expected patient outcomes.
• Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
• Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
• Implementation: Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
• Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
• Gives feedback to co-workers.
• Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
• Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Planning: Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
• Research: Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.
Schedule Notes: Trauma Level 1 Exp Required, 1 Year Min (No Block Schedules)
Skills: Required Skills & Experience:
• One (1) year of nursing experience.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
• N/A
Education: Required Education:
• Nursing Diploma. OR
• ADN or ASN from an accredited school of Nursing.
Preferred Education:
• BSN or MSN from an accredited school of Nursing.
Required Certifications & Licensure:
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification (AHA or ARC).
Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
• N/A;
Languages: English Read Write Speak
Job Category: Clinical-Nursing