Bronson

Nurse

• Manage patient care delivery throughout the length of stay to achieve quality outcomes and timely discharge
• Apply the nursing process: assessment, planning, diagnosis, implementation, and evaluation
• Coordinate care provided by other professionals
• Delegate tasks within the scope of professional nursing practice and assistants’ abilities
• Provide appropriate physical care based on patient acuity and complexity
• Document and communicate patient responses, resource consumption, and anticipated needs
• Collect and analyze comprehensive patient data and identify patient problems
• Develop individualized care plans and expected outcomes with patient/family input
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments using approved nursing techniques
• Provide patient education and coordinate implementation of education plans
• Organize, delegate, and evaluate patient care interventions
• Coordinate discharge planning
• Participate in quality improvement, continuing education, peer review, and professional development
• Collaborate with patients, families, and multiple healthcare disciplines
• Protect patient autonomy, dignity, confidentiality, and rights; serve as patient advocate
• Use research and evidence-based practice to improve patient care and nursing practice
• Provide leadership in the professional practice setting and attend at least 50% of unit staff meetings
• For scrub RN duties: prepare case carts, anticipate physician and surgical-team needs, maintain equipment and instruments, and perform scrub duties across multiple services
• Complete annual swing-bed training and understand associated documentation and care requirements
• For HDU: fulfill additional on-call requirements

Registered Nurse – General Care Unit

• Plan and organize clinical support staff and their functions
• Support providers in clinical duties and support the Practice Manager
• Provide day-to-day continuity of leadership
• Act as a role model, mentor, coach, and resource for staff
• Maintain practice standards and encourage a team environment
• Assist with hiring, orientation, performance monitoring and evaluation, problem solving, employee counseling, staffing, and payroll
• Resolve clinical issues related to day-to-day office operations
• Serve as a contact for internal and external customers
• Foster positive customer service and meet quality standards
• Implement new processes and monitor ongoing processes
• Support practice and organizational goals
• Coordinate day-to-day clinical practice operations
• Supervise practice clinical staff
• Manage changes in census, acuity, staffing levels, and patient flow
• Support staff in providing patient care
• Assess and direct resource allocation
• Assign staff and delineate patient care
• Facilitate orientation, conduct annual reviews, and provide staff feedback
• Validate clinical skills of registered nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Medical Assistants
• Participate in creating, reviewing, and administering policies and procedures
• Provide weekly payroll updates
• Manage clinical inventory, ordering, and narcotic inventory
• Monitor immunizations and control vaccines
• Provide equipment in-services
• Maintain OSHA, CLIA, MCIR, and other standards and policies compliance
• Manage difficult situations using diplomatic problem-solving skills
• Provide support to the Practice Manager
• Perform other duties as assigned

Registered Nurse – General Care Unit

Practice Clinical Supervisor, Registered Nurse