Entry Level Rn Data Abstractor Jobs in Athens, GA

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Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.

• Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required

• Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience - Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

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• Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN

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• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines

• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service

• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice

• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model

• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

• Transformational Leadership
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  Serves as a charge nurse and ensures appropriate patient care is provided in a cost effective, quality driven and patient focused manner
  Serves on teams and leads teams as a part of daily practice
  Participates in 1 NGMC committee/council
  Role models healthy work environment behaviors and practices that include fostering trust among co-workers, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for one another

  Exemplary Professional Practice
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  Serves as a role model for the unit in incorporating national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction
  Role models communication skills and is able to articulate and translate the patient's condition to physicians, advanced practice providers and other colleagues; effectively incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
  If applicable, participates in at least one Advanced training skill not required of all registered nurses on the unit
  Role models Sister Simone Roach's theory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice

  New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  Seeks opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with other members of the healthcare team
  Supports continuous learning on the unit by sharing research material from professional journals and/or organizations
  Actively participates in quality improvement activities
  Actively participates in implementing evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
  Assists in facilitating unit-based education, in-services, and skills validation
  Serves as a preceptor as needed for students, nurse residents and experienced nurses

  Structural Empowerment
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  Advocates for cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
  Role models keen cultural intelligence including preventing and addressing lateral violence and impairment
  Participates in unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
  Leads unit-based selfcare activities
  Practices tools and techniques to mitigate and minimize workplace violence

  Empirical Outcomes
  Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  Serves as a unit-based champion; completes unit-based audits and provides data to management for follow-up with staff to achieve positive outcomes as required for department
  Serves as a super user
  Participates in quality-of-care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
  Actively participates in unit-based activities aimed at improving the patient's experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement

• Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time

• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

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Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.