Scope of Position: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centers mission is to improve health in Ohio and across the world through innovation in research, education, and patient care. The team provides patient care and supportive services directed towards achievement of positive patient care outcomes, maximizing the patients involvement in his/her own plan of care and reducing the length of hospitalization, The staff nurse plays a critical role in staff engagement , the patient experience, quality and safety, and cost effective care.

Position Summary: The Staff Nurse is responsible for managing and providing care to the patient and his/her family, and for directing and supervising nursing care provided by other members of the patient care team. The Staff Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, delegating and evaluating the nursing care of patients in alignment with the professional practice model.

95% Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Care Delivery: Participates in our innovative healthcare delivery model that delivers high value care with unparalleled patient experience.

• Applies the nursing process to all areas of practice
• Establishes a patient plan of care; provides patient education related to patients condition, therapeutic regimen and self-care measures; evaluates effectiveness of patient education
• Provides care according to patient needs; performs specialized nursing care procedures as outlined in department/unit specific competency profiles
• Provides discharge planning that begins on admission according to patient need; coordinates patient care, admissions, transfers and discharges. Matching nurses with specific skills to patients with specific needs.
• Provides interdisciplinary communication to enhance the patient plan of care
• Enhances patient experience with high value care
• Actively participates in performance improvement initiatives positively affecting quality and safety
• Responds to urgent situations and assumes an active role to enhance emergency care needed for positive patient outcomes
• Adheres to regulatory compliance standards

Talent and Culture: Supports an environment to attract and develop a diverse and talented team of people committed to creating a culture of innovation and discovery.

• Promotes a safe, positive, and healthy work environment
• Contributes to the advancement and wellbeing of the team in order to support retention, engagement, and professional culture
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with others
• In collaboration and with the direction of the nurse manager, may assume additional leadership responsibilities
• Embody the Buckeye spirit through our shared values: Inclusiveness, Determination, Empathy, Sincerity, Ownership, and Innovation

Biomedical Discoveries: Encourages scientific curiosity and determination

• Participates in evidence-based practice and or nursing research through clinical inquiry to improve care
• Describes clinical problems using the evidence
• Promotes a culture of evidence-based practice for problem solving and clinical decision-making

• Implement an innovative multidisciplinary education model to educate the most diverse and sought after health professionals in the world.

• Attends mandatory education
• Maintains appropriate competencies

• Participates in professional development opportunities
• Participates in the orientation and mentoring of new employees (experienced and new graduates) to support our academic values
• Attends and /or presents unit in-services to support growth and development

Healthy Communities:Create healthy communities by addressing Ohios most pressing health needs.

• Acknowledge that nurses have a unique role and nursing participation can support medical center strategies to improve community health.
• Identify opportunities to participate in community organizations and initiatives. Track and communicate individual and unit-level activity.
• Encourage patients to be an active participant in their care.

Resource Stewardship:Be a responsible steward of all resources.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes that reduce waste in the system.
• Actively support operational and financial initiatives.
• Understand Nursing philanthropic efforts, priorities and opportunity to develop pipeline.
• Recognize critical role that nursing plays in care delivery, outcomes, and the potential for impact on philanthropic interests of grateful patients and others.

5% Assumes other duties as assigned

Organizational Expectations:

Supports the nursing professional practice model. Practices within the Medical Centers policies and procedures and the nursing Standards of Practice. Adheres to the Medical Centers; Mission, Vision, and Values.

For Hire: Degree in Nursing from a CCNE (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education) or Accreditation

Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) accredited nursing program required.

Current Ohio license or interim permit. *Experience in relevant care setting preferred.

On-going: Maintains current Ohio RN license. Meets mandatory educational and health requirements. Demonstrates

computer skills required to meet job functions.

Job Relationships

Supervisory Responsibility: N/A

Contacts/Customers: Patients and family, all members of the health care team.

Responsible to:Manager

Physical/Visual/Mental Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to:

• Transport/ move patients in order to provide care,
• Move objects weighing up to 40 pounds around the work environment in order to provide care (does not include patient movement or transfers)
• Provide care, perform necessary duties and maintain patient safety in the patient care environment,
• Set up/ adjust various patient equipment items in use at the Medical Center, and
• Communicate clearly in order to facilitate the patients plan of care.

Work Environment

• The work environment involves risks or discomforts which require special safety precautions, additional safety education and/or health risk monitoring, e.g. chemicals, radiation, working with sharps (needles, syringes, scalpels), infectious diseases. Employees may be required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, goggles, gloves, etc.
• The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which requires normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices and meeting rooms (i.e. use of safe work practices, avoidance of trips and falls, and observance of fire regulations and traffic signs).
• The work environment involves risks associated with the use of computers such as eye strain and disorders that result from repetitive motions associated with computer use.

Note: The above statements are intended to describe the essential functions and related requirements of persons assigned to this job. They are not intended as an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements.