Critical Care RN, ICU - One UMMS Staffing Center

• Job Requirements General Summary This role is considered the minimum role for all nurses who have greater than 12 months experience.
• Provides and coordinates independent care to patients within a clinical specialty as a fully effective and participative member of the multidisciplinary patient care services team.
• Principal Responsibilities and Tasks The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.
• These are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.
• Clinical Practice: Provides independent care to unit specific patient population; serves as clinical resource for others, utilizes and integrates evidence into practice, functions effectively in roles specific to unit (such as arrest team for ICU, triage for ED, etc).
• Accountable to patients and families for the processes and outcomes of care during an episode of care.
• Accountable to peers for the advancement of group practice on the unit, and to the nurse manager for the totality of work performance.
• Serves as an effective primary coordinating nurse; collaborates with interdisciplinary team to plan and coordinate care addressing patient/family needs.
• Serves as clinical resource for others.
• Service/Quality: Assists in team development and evaluation of the Relationship-Based Care model; suggests methods for improvement.
• Participates in collection of data related to Relationship-Based Care outcomes (e.g. hand offs, medication safety, etc).
• Participates in implementation efforts addressing Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators (NSQI).
• Participates and contributes to Performance Improvement, or Evidence Based Practice, or research at the unit level.
• Complies with standards and participates with unit level activities for regulatory compliance.
• Unit Operations: Supports charge nurse decisions; performs charge role for assigned shifts as needed.
• Follows and supports the AACN guidelines for Healthy Work Environment (communication, collaboration, effective decision making, recognition, leadership, staffing); participates as team member focusing on elements within the Healthy Work Environment.
• Professional Development: Serves as preceptor, coach, mentor to new nurses and students.
• Contributes to ancillary personnel skills and development, attends educational offerings and in-services independently.
• Patient Safety Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiatives.
• Acts to correct observed risks to patient safety.
• Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
• Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge.

• Work Experience Education & Experience Unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in the state of Maryland, or a Nurse Compact License (NSL) BSN preferred.
• Two years recent (within the past 12 months) critical care nursing experience.
• Solid knowledge and clinical skills. (See attached Professional Self-assessment skills checklist) Maintenance of 10 contact hours of education every two years.
• Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) *All Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained through the American Heart Association.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) must be obtained through the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association.

Benefits: Compensation: Flat Rate $55/hr