National Resident RN Cardiac ICU Step Down

Leadership

Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery. Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.

Professionalism

• Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.
• Attainment of
• Core
• Competencies:
• Taking
• Ownership: Has a basic understanding and knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand; ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.

Teamwork

• Basic understanding and knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; participates effectively as part of a team.
• Patient /
• Customer
• Focus: Basic understanding ensuring that the patient/customer perspective is a driving force behind our actions and business decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patients'/customers’ and own organization’s needs. (Focus also includes internal and external customers.)
• Leading through
• Mission,
• Vision and
• Values: Basic understanding keeping the organization’s mission, vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.
• Effective communication: Basic understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Patient
• Safety: Basic understanding and knowledge of the risks faced by patients in a healthcare environment, and the ability to take steps to reduce these risks.
• Clinical
• Performance
• Improvement: Basic understanding and knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, and the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.
• Continuous
• Learning: Basic understanding of the rationale behind the necessity to continually learn and grow and the ability to seek performance feedback and identify approaches to improve one's own performance and that of others.

Followership

• Basic understanding of and ability to carry out strategies and tasks that support the mission and goals of the leader and the organization.
• Service
• Excellence: Basic understanding and knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
• Healthcare
• Knowledge: Basic understanding and knowledge of the operating principles, major issues, governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to healthcare related situations.
• Nursing
• Assessment and
• Care: Basic understanding of and ability to assess ailments and injuries of patients and implement a treatment plan.
• Decision-Making and
• Critical
• Thinking: Basic understanding and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Clinical
• Skills: Basic understanding of and ability to provide clinical skills necessary for patient care, e.g. history taking, therapeutic planning and monitoring, etc., to achieve optimized outcomes in medication therapy and clinical treatment. Job Requirements Required Associates Of Science Nursing and 0-12 months of professional nursing (RN) experience, upon hire and
• Registered
• Nurse: KY, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire Preferred Bachelors Of Science Nursing, upon hire