Number of Job Openings Available: 1 Date Posted: January 18, 2023
Department: 31003232 H7000 Spine Patient Care Unit Shift: Permanent
Nights (United States of America) Shift Length: Hours Per Week: 32 Union
Contract: MNA-1-Abbott Northwestern RN Weekend Rotation: Every Other 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.
Practices primarily on hospital units and care for patients that are
acutely ill across a wide variety of medical issues and support recovery
from surgery. Key Position Details: .8 nights shift position 2300-0730
Tier 1: One year of Spine Nursing required, or currently working on a
spine unit Tier 2: One year Ortho Nursing experience required, or
currently working on an ortho unit. Tier 3: One year of inpatient
nursing experience preferred, will consider new grads Job Description:
Specialty: Spine Pirinciple 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 an 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.
Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other
disciplines. Preceptor (only when acting in this role). Demonstrates
ability to identify the orientee’s learning needs and plans appropriate
learning experiences. Demonstrates ability to implement an
individualized orientation plan for the orientee. Demonstrates ability
to validate clinical competence of orientee. Facilitates development of
organizational and prioritization skills of orientee. Demonstrates
ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of orientee. Serves as a
professional role model. Facilitated socialization of orientee into the
organization and work group. Other duties as assigned. Job Requirements
Associate’s or Vocational degree required Bachelor’s degree preferred
All new grads must apply to the New Grad RN Requisition: R-0000016. New
Graduate RN applicants… For full info follow application link. Allina
Health is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities to all
employees and applicants. EO M/F/Disability/Vet Employer.
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