Job Description
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Job Specialty: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Level II or III
Job Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 12-hour night shift (19:00-07:30)
Guaranteed Hours: 36.00 hours per week
Experience: One year of experience preferred
License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the NLC
Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification, STABLE certification preferred
Must-Have: Proficiency in patient care, NICU environment, therapeutic interventions
Job Description:
- Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promote the optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient through the use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, aligning care with organizational mission and core values.
- Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
- Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Competently perform a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient and family education through the assessment of learning readiness, needs, and ability, and evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
- Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
- Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies effectively to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Serve as a professional role model for all staff by demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
- Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
- Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precept and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Seek out learning opportunities and continue education to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate one's own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
- Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe delivery of care.
Skills:
- Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to the NICU specialty
- Ability to float to different locations or zones as needed, which may include duties outside of original assignment job requirements as per policy