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INTRODUCTION

Lakeland Regional Health is a leading medical center located in Central Florida. With a legacy spanning over a century, we have been dedicated to serving our community with excellence in healthcare. As the only Provisional Level 1 Trauma center for Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties, and the second busiest Emergency Department in the US, we are committed to providing high-quality care to our diverse patient population. Our facility is licensed for 910 beds and handles over 200,000 emergency room visits annually, along with 49,000 inpatient admissions, 21,000 surgical cases, 4,000 births, and 101,000 outpatient visits.

Work Hours per Biweekly Pay Period: 8.00

Shift: Monday - Friday PRN

Location: 818 Griffin Road Lakeland, FL

Pay Rate: $45.57

Position Summary

The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) will promote relationship-centered care that appreciates the vulnerability of patients, anticipates needs, and incorporates the patient as a full partner in care. The RN will deliver high quality care based on therapeutic caring relationships that are individualized to the patients and their families' needs and values. The RN will practice competently and uphold the standards of nursing practice to promote positive patient outcomes. The RN will assure proactive, protective, and safe practice resulting in the elimination of all preventable harm. The RN will adhere to organizational policies and procedures; regulatory accrediting body requirements and professional practice standards. The Clinical RN practices the scope and standards of nursing care including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Clinical RN demonstrates scope and standards of professional performance including quality of professional practice, evaluation of practice, lifelong learning, collegiality, ethics, collaboration, clinical inquiry, resource utilization, and leadership.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

People At The Heart Of All We Do

• Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
• Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
• Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.

Safety And Performance Improvement

• Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
• Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
• Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.

Stewardship

• Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
• Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.

Standard Work: Registered Nurse

• Uses the standards of nursing practice and mutually problem solves with the patient, family, other healthcare providers, and the community, as appropriate, to develop a well-coordinated and collaborated plan of care to address the patient's needs.
• Demonstrates a competent level of behavior in the professional registered nurse role, through engagement in caring relationships, modeling of caring factors and the promotion of optimal outcomes.
• Assures zero preventable harm by demonstrating keen attention to all patient safety and quality practices including but not limited to hand hygiene, intentional hourly rounding, proactive toileting, clutter-free, healing environment.
• Establishes self-caring practices through demonstrating personal safety practices and engaging in continuous learning to advance one's professional practice.
• Exhibits commitment to the vision, core purpose/mission and goals of LRH, modeling the Quality-Caring Model concepts by initiating, cultivating, and sustaining caring relationships with patients and families, other nurses and other members of the healthcare team.
• Demonstrates ethical practice by maintaining patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters in a nonjudgmental and nondiscriminatory manner that appreciates the unique meanings of patients, families, and the community.
• Fosters a spirit of clinical inquiry through integration of the Quality-Caring Model with specific evidenced based nursing interventions, to positively influence health outcomes. Uses the best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions and continually question and evaluate practice. Participates in activities to support clinical inquiry as appropriate to the nurse's skills, knowledge and experience.
• Appropriately utilizes resources by maintaining an open, flexible approach and considering factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact in planning and delivering nursing services.
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of students, peers, and other healthcare providers as colleagues. Uses caring relationships to enhance the healthy work environment by working with others in a way that promotes mutual respect and meaningful recognition of each person's contribution.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities that influence and guide fellow team members to maximize the potential of the team as a whole and promote a culture of peer to peer accountability. Contributes to the professional practice environment through participation on committees, councils, administrative teams and in professional organizations as appropriate to the nurse's skills, knowledge, and experience.

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

Essential:

• Demonstrate nursing practice of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Demonstrate relationship-centered care to deliver a well communicated and collaborative plan of care utilizing the core concepts of the Quality-Caring Model.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Associate Degree

Nonessential:

• Bachelor Degree

Essential:

• Nursing: If hired after 2013, must obtain Bachelor degree in Nursing within 3 years of employment date.

Nonessential:

• Nursing

Other information:

Licenses Essential: Current license as Registered Nurse in Florida.

Certifications Essential: BLS

Certifications Preferred: Certification in Specialty of Nursing

Experience Required: All RNs in the STEP and Resource Pool position require a minimum of one year recent acute care experience. May require previous experience for PACU, OR, ED, L&D, Radiology and Critical Care.