Staff Nurse - Medical Surgical, Dayshift

Job Summary:

Definition of Shared Governance: Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.

Standards of Practice

• Assessment
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse collects pertinent date and information relative to patient health or situation.
• Diagnosis
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses, problems or issues.
• Outcome Identification
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient.
• Planning
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse develops a plan of care that includes interventions to attain expected measurable outcomes.
• Implementation
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurseimplements the individualized patientplan of care.
• Evaluation
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse evaluates progress toward attainment of patient goals and outcomes.

Essential Job Duties:

Standards of Professional Performance

• Ethics
  • Medical-surgical nurses deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, sensitive, and culturally competent manner.
• Diversification
  • Medical-surgical nurses interact with, and contribute to, the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues.
• Communication
  • Medical-surgical nurses communicate effectively with clients, families, and other health care professionals.
• Collaboration
  • Medical-surgical nurses collaborate with the client, family members, significant others, and health care providers in providing care.
• Leadership
  • Medical-surgical nurses use leadership skills to enhance client outcomes and foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession.
• Education
  • Medical-surgical nurses acquire and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice. Medical-surgical nurses pursue knowledge to enhance nursing expertise and advance the profession.
• Evidence-Based Practice & Research
  • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
• Quality of Practice
  • The Medical/Pediatric Nurse contributes to quality nursing practice. Ensures that nursing practice is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely and patient-centered.
• Professional Practice Evaluation
  • Medical/Pediatric Nurse evaluateshis/her own and other's nursing practicein accordance withprofessional practice standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies andcontributes to the professional development of peers or other health care providers as colleagues.
• Resource Utilization
  • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.