Ambulatory Nurse II-Trauma-Surg Critical

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers, and self through system effectiveness and individual performance. 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.
• 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.
• 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. Informatics/Technology: 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 safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.
• 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.

Credentials:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• BLS/ACLS/PALS; per specialty Required.
• Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
• RN Required with state licensure.
• ACLS or BCLS or PALS (Required)

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor of Science Nursing
• Bachelor's degree Required- BSN from an accredited school of nursing and 15 months relevant professional nursing experience. Certification in specialty.
• Other (Required)
• Diploma or ASN from an accredited school of nursing. More than 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience.