Job Description
As a Clinical Resource RN, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn -whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing. Job Summary and Qualifications The Resource Nurse supports high quality, patient-centered care by offering feedback, guidance, and mentoring to new graduate nurses and/or nurses that are transitioning to a new specialty. The Resource Nurse supports multiple units. The Resource Nurse provides guidance and education on the hospital's standard of nursing practice, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all accrediting and regulatory agency requirements. Major Responsibilities: Quality • Performs rounds on each nursing unit, continuously observing, assessing the quality of patient care, and identifying nursing educational needs. Escalates concerns about nursing skills, patient care, policies, processes, and equipment as appropriate. Utilizes skills of observation. Provides feedback on nursing assessments, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care. Provides feedback and mentoring on patient assessments and care planning. Provides assistance with performing or troubleshooting specific skills. Maintains IMobile phone for easy contact by new graduates or nurses within scope of support. Tracks requests to identify most commonly requested skills for purposes of enhancing orientation & education. Fosters teamwork and contributes to achievement of team goals. Attends rapid responses and codes as needed, to observe, provide feedback, and debrief, facilitate education, direction, coaching before, during and after the rapid response or code as indicated. Shares knowledge/expertise and assists co-workers. Service • Serves as an example of