Allina Health System Hiring for Rapid Response RN at Minneapolis, Minnesota Full Time

Number of Job Openings Available: 1 Date Posted: January 27, 2023
Posting Expiration Date: February 04, 2023 Department: 31003201 Rapid
Response Resource Shift: Permanent Nights (United States of America)
Shift Length: 12 hour shift Hours Per Week: 36 Union Contract:
MNA-1-Abbott Northwestern RN Weekend Rotation: Every 3rd Job Summary:
Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or
potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional
therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and
family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse
has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning,
coordinating and evaluating the patient’s care needs. Provides nursing
care across departments that provide critical care services. Provides
specialized care to patients who are severely ill or injured. May
practice in an intensive care unit or in a care area that requires the
expertise of the critical care nurse. Key Position Details: The Rapid
Response Team is a unique group of Critical Care Trained Registered
Nurses who respond to emergent situations throughout the hospital. They
are specially trained with additional critical care skills to assist the
staff RNs in emergent situations for our patient care population. They
are assisting the RN staff on all floors of the hospital in patient care
situations where additional guidance is required. The skills of this
group helps to decrease the number of Dr. Blues outside of the intensive
care units and avoid negative results by early patient intervention.
Current RN licensure in the State of Minnesota Current BLS & ACLS
Current PALS Certification Required (or within 90 days of hire) Current
TNCC Certification Required (or within 90 days of hire) Recent emergency
department experience preferred (current or within the last 2-5 years)
Position is Interview Dependent Tier 1: Minimum of 2 years of current
critical care experience within the last 4 years required Job
Description: Principle Responsibilities Assessment. Collects,
prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the
patient’s health or situation. Collects and prioritizes data in a
systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other
health care providers and environment as appropriate. Integrates data
relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in
data collection. Diagnosis. Analyzes assessment data to determine
nursing diagnoses. Interprets assessment information to identify each
patient’s needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the
current patient status. Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses
with the patient, family and other health care team members. Documents
nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.
Outcomes Identification. Identifies expected outcomes individualized to
the patient. Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient,
realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing
diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available
resources and plan for continuity of care. Planning. Develops a plan
that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. Develops an
individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation
as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care. Incorporates
evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current
statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.
Implementation. Implements the identified plan. Implements interventions
in a safe, timely, appropriate manner. Utilizes evidence-based
interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate
Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate Documents
interventions according to documentation guidelines. Evaluation.
Evaluates the patient’s progress towards attainment of the outcome.
Evaluates the patient’s/family’s understanding of and response to the
plan of care. Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise
diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care. Involves the patient, family,
and health care team members in the evaluation process when appropriate.
Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care
according to documentation guidelines. Quality of Practice.
Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing
practice. Participates in quality improvement activities related to
nursing practice. Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing
practice and outcome. Education. Attains knowledge and competency that
reflects current nursing practice. Participates in educational
activities related to nursing practice. Acquires and applies the
knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing
practice. Professional Practice Evaluation. Evaluates one’s own nursing
practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory
guidelines. Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis,
identifying strengths and goals for professional development. Obtains
informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers,
professional colleagues, and others. Collegiality. Contributes to the
professional development of peers, colleagues, and others. Shares
knowledge and skills in practice settings. Provides immediate and
ongoing positive and constructive feedback to colleagues regarding their
performance. Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
Collaboration. Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the
conduct of nursing practice. Partners with others to effect change and
generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or
situation. Ethics. Acts in an ethical manner. Maintains a therapeutic
and professional patient-nurse relationship with appropriate
professional role boundaries. Serves as a patient advocate assisting
patients in developing skills for self-advocacy Uses available resources
to help formulate ethical decisions. Research. Integrates research
findings in practice. Utilizes the best evidence, including research
findings, to guide practice decisions. Resource Utilization.
Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact
on practice in planning and delivering patient care. Utilizes resources
related to standards of care in a safe, effective and ethical manner.
Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the
future. Leadership. Provides leadership in the professional practice
setting and the profession. Functions as a professional role model.
Promotes a positive work environment. Participates in shared
decision-making. Environmental Health. Practices in an environmentally
safe and healthy manner. Attains knowledge of environmental health
concepts, such as implementation of environmental health strategies.
Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks
for workers and healthcare consumers. Communicates environmental health
risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers,
families, colleagues and communities. Charge Nurse (only when acting in
this role). Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation
so the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently
utilized in a safe manner. Promotes an environment that encourages
individual growth, nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.
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