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National Jewish Health Registered Nurse (RN) - Adult Pulmonary Clinic in Denver, Colorado
National Jewish Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Adult Pulmonary Clinic. At National Jewish Health, nursing contributes to a positive care experience for patients and families that is life-changing and healing. Nurses collaborate with other health professionals to provide outstanding patient-centered care, health education, and disease management. We seek to ensure this level of excellence through evidence-based practice, embracing research and innovation, and by preparing the next generation of nursing professionals while striving to continuously educate ours
Our team is looking seeking a candidate who is ready to grow in their professional career, has great communication skills, enjoys an excellent culture, and is a team player.
What do we do? We diagnose and treat adult patients with a variety of common and unusual respiratory diseases.
Position Summary Accurately plans and provides professional nursing care for patients, groups, or populations a systematic approach incorporating assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of plan of care using a variety of formats, tools, and technologies. The Ambulatory Clinic Registered Nurse works in a specialty care clinic and is responsible and accountable for facilitation and management of care coordination across the healthcare continuum. Utilizes the nursing process to work with interdisciplinary teams to provide safe and personalized care. Demonstrates core competencies in the area of practice.
Essential Duties
Systematically collects or supervises the collection of focused data relating to health needs and concerns of a patient, group, or population in the ambulatory clinic setting. Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnostic statements for health promotion, health maintenance, or health-related problems or issues. Identifies expected and/or desired outcomes in a plan of care individualized for a specific patient, group, or population. Develops a plan that identifies strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes in individuals and/or populations and acts on plan of care. Ensures the plan of care reflects the cultural, spiritual, intellectual, age, educational, and psychosocial differences of individual patients, groups, or populations. Practices care coordination and transition management (CCTM) coordinating the delivery of care in the ambulatory clinic setting and across health care settings. Employs educational strategies that promote individual, community, and population health and safety. Evaluates progress toward attainment of stated outcomes in plan of care. Participates in projects, activities, committees, related to nursing and health care in clinical and organizational settings. Participates in evidenced based practice and research strategies to advance ambulatory care nursing and improve patient outcomes. Other Duties
Performs other job-related duties as assigned. Functions as a preceptor as assigned. Competencies
Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health. Ethics: Practices ethically; Integrates the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements to guide practice; demonstrates compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of all people; advocates for healthcare consumer's rights to informed decision-making and self-determination; maintains therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries; safeguards privacy and confidentiality of healthcare consumers, and their data and information [Standard of Professional Performance (SPP) 7]. Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or roups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message [SPP 9]. Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treat others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others [SPP 10]. Leadership: Encourages innovation in practice and role performance to attain personal and professional plans, goals, and vision; manages change and conflict; retains accountability for delegated nursing care; contributes to the evolution of the profession through participation in professional organizations. [SPP 11]. Professional Development: Actively identifies in new area with preceptor learning opportunities and unit specific competencies; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill to enhance contribution to the organization [SPP 12, 15]. Evidence-based Practice and Research: Integrates evidence and research findings into practice; Articulates the values of research and its application relative to the healthcare setting; identifies questions in the healthcare setting and practice that can be answered by nursing research; uses current evidence-based knowledge, including research findings, to guide practice; incorporates evidence when initiating change in practice [SPP 1 Quality of Practice: Contributes to quality nursing practice: Ensures practice is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient centered; identifies barriers and opportunities to improve safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, timeliness, and patient centeredness; recommends strategies to improve nursing quality [SPP 14]. Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility