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Registered Nurse Inpatient
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What they do
A Registered Nurse provides medical care and treatment, educates patients about their conditions, and provides emotional support to patients and families. Works in hospitals, schools, clinics or community health centers. Works under the supervision of a physician or other specialist, and serves as the primary point of care for patients in a hospital setting. May specialize in emergency room work, or treatment for a particular condition, or specialize in working with infants, the elderly or other patient groups. May work as an advanced practice specialists and prescribe medications in addition to offering specialty care.
$74,613 / year median in Colorado
+8% projected growth
Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities Family-Centered Care:
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.- Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
- Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
- Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team.
Teamwork & Collaboration:
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.- Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
- Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
- Collaborates with team members in shared decision making.
Evidence Based Practice:
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.- Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
- Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
- Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
- Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.
Quality Improvement:
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.- Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
- Participates in the quality improvement activities and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
Safety:
Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.- Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
- Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
Informatics:
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.- Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
- Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.
Leadership:
Nurses support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending their influence to professional and community groups.- Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
- Participates in professional governance activities.
- Seeks opportunities to participate in professional development activities Minimum Qualifications Degrees Bachelor of Science in Nursing Area of Study Not applicable