**Job Title:** Registered Nurse **Job Specialty:** ICU **Job Duration:** 13 Weeks **Shift:** 7 PM - 7:30 AM, Every Other Weekend, 3x12, Flexible Scheduling **Guaranteed Hours:** 34.50 **Experience:** Minimum 2 years RN experience, 2 years of critical care/tele experience **License:** Valid RN License **Certifications:** BLS, ACLS **Must-Have:** NYS RN License, EPIC experience highly preferred **Job Description:** - Provide safe, competent quality care to a designated group of patients and significant others based on nursing theory and research. - Deliver patient care by incorporating the tenets of the professional practice model of Relationship-Centered Care through the nursing process based on theory, research, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards. - Assess and evaluate patient care needs, applying critical thinking skills in care management. - Integrate relevant assessment and intervention skills in nursing care delivery. - Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care. - Prioritize all aspects of patient care including teaching, rounding, coaching, and planning after hospital care, delegating to others as appropriate. - Educate patients and caregivers, anticipating needs and readiness to learn about their care plan, transition, health promotion, and disease prevention. - Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, family, and all members of the Interdisciplinary Care Team. - Manage assignments within the Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary Nursing and demonstrate effective allocation of resources. - Operate as a role model in the practice of Relationship-Centered Care through key practices such as Bedside Shift Report, Purposeful Hourly Rounding, and Medication Review. - Establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients and their families. - Employ evidence-based practices for patient perception of care understanding. - Initiate service recovery as needed and escalate concerns appropriately. - Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening through professional interactions. - Conduct Purposeful Hourly Rounding (PHR) addressing the 4 Ps. - Practice safe, efficient patient-centered care while identifying and escalating barriers and opportunities for improvement. - Demonstrate clinical skills crucial to quality and safety in the patient population served. - Implement process improvement strategies based on institutional and evidence-based standards. - Engage in peer and institutional review processes to enhance quality and safety measures. - Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to create quality improvement projects and nursing research. - Contribute to quality and safety practices and compliance measures. - Identify and avoid high-risk behaviors to maintain a safe environment for patients. - Utilize institutional technology to document nursing practice supporting quality and performance improvement initiatives. **Operations:** - Perform charge nurse duties as assigned. - Coordinate with the nursing management team to ensure appropriate supply utilization and inventory sufficiency. - Escalate material or staffing deficits as necessary. - Document in an accurate and thorough manner complying with hospital, regulatory, and legal standards. - Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis. **Professional Development:** - Support clinical colleagues, patients, and their families in the care environment. - Advance clinical competence in nursing practice. - Project a professional image, communicating respectfully and empathetically. - Incorporate ethical principles into decision-making. - Foster a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, life-long learning, and innovation. - Acquire knowledge and skills pertinent to the role, patient population, and clinical specialty. - Participate in shared decision-making through specialty practice councils and nursing department committees.