Position Summary

Responsible for the delivery of nursing care within the assigned unit scope of practice following hospital policies and procedures, nursing process guidelines, standards of care, and standards of practice.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1.Assesses each assigned patient, documents and evaluates their response to plan of care, and takes appropriate corrective action.

2.Plans and implements the patient’s plan of care/standard of care and provides patient teaching using the plan of care/standard of care.

3.Oversees all ancillary personnel for technical tasks.

4.Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual and unit competencies within scope of practice.

5.Integrates into practice the research of best practice benchmarking and clinical pathways.

6.Measures, identifies and implements strategies to improve clinical practice outcomes and patient safety initiatives, and designs an...