Clinical Nurse 2 - Neuro Intensive Care Unit @ HUP - FT - Rotating

Responsibilities:

• Professional Practice Competency Domains Definitions
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
• Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
• Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
• Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Technology/Informatics: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
• Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Credentials:

• BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association.
  
• Pennsylvania RN licensure
  

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• BSN from an accredited school of nursing and More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable.
  

Additional Information:

The Neuro Intensive Care is a 22-bed unit focusing primarily on the care of neurosurgical and neurology patients. Our nurses are at the bedside caring for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhages, arterial venous malformations, epidural hematomas, subdural hematomas, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, brain tumors, myasthenia crisis, stroke, seizure, and intracranial bleeds. The Neuro Intensive Care Unit nurses are actively involved in bedside translational nursing research. Several of our staff members hold positions as translational nursing research fellows. They are involved in the process of writing grants and submitting research proposals for our bedside projects. The bedside nurse is an integral part in research. The Neuro Intensive Care Unit team is comprised of critical care nurses who have been recognized by the American Association of Critical-care nurses (AACN) for exhibiting high quality standards, excellence in the intensive care setting , and for excellence in collaborating care of patients and their families within a healthy work environment. This Neuro ICU has been recognized as exhibiting “excellence in critical care” by meeting and exceeding the strict criteria set forth by the AACN. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Neuro ICU team has earned the esteemed Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.