As a Clinical Resource RN, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Job Summary and Qualifications
The Resource Nurse supports high quality, patient-centered care by offering feedback, guidance, and mentoring to new graduate nurses and/or nurses that are transitioning to a new specialty. The Resource Nurse supports multiple units. The Resource Nurse provides guidance and education on the hospital’s standard of nursing practice, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all accrediting and regulatory agency requirements.
Major Responsibilities: Quality • Performs rounds on each nursing unit, continuously observing, assessing the quality of patient care, and identifying nursing educational needs. Escalates concerns about nursing skills, patient care, policies, processes, and equipment as appropriate. • Utilizes skills of observation. Provides feedback on nursing assessments, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care. • Provides feedback and mentoring on patient assessments and care planning. • Provides assistance with performing or troubleshooting specific skills. • Maintains IMobile phone for easy contact by new graduates or nurses within scope of support. • Tracks requests to identify most commonly requested skills for purposes of enhancing orientation & education. • Fosters teamwork and contributes to achievement of team goals. • Attends rapid responses and codes as needed, to observe, provide feedback, and debrief, facilitate education, direction, coaching before, during and after the rapid response or code as indicated. • Shares knowledge/expertise and assists co-workers. Service • Serves as an example of professional nursing practice and promotes pride in nursing for the organization, the community, and the health care industry. • Demonstrates caring and empathy in all interactions and advocates for patient- and family-centered approach in all decisions and actions. • Promotes evidence-based best practices that enhance the patient experience, including SAFETY rounding, communication fundamentals/AIDET, Teach-Back, Narrating Care, etc. • Ensures that nurses within scope of support have a clear understanding of how to integrate patient experience behaviors into quality, safety, and nursing practice. • Demonstrates excellent communication skills, including active listening. Ensures patients, physicians, and colleagues have a clear understanding of all communications, and escalates care concerns appropriately. • Participates as an engaged, active member of the health care team and positively promotes the rest of the team to patients/families/caregivers and other colleagues. • Maintains a professional appearance and demonstrates behaviors consistent with established policies/procedures. People• Serves as a mentor and direct support for nursing colleagues. • Fosters teamwork and contributes to the achievement of team goals. Growth • Seeks opportunities to impact the growth of the organization by promoting excellence in patient experience and providing high quality care to the patients served. • Encourages physician engagement by elevating care of the workforce and mitigating escalations. Finance • Assumes personal accountability for work time. Other • Performs other duties as assigned. • Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” and “Mission and Value Statement.”
Education & Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Required • Master's Degree in Nursing Preferred • 2+ years experience as an RN Required • 1+ years experience in a leadership role Preferred • 1+ years experience as a preceptor Preferred Benefits
Memorial Satilla Health, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession and helping to shape the future of nursing."
Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare
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Memorial Satilla Health is a 230+ bed acute-care hospital serving the Middle-Georgia community for more than 60 years. Our hospital offers key services, including an ER where more than 45,000 emergencies are treated each year, Heart, Orthopedic, Surgery, Rehabilitation, Sleep and Birthing Centers and an extensive Mental Health program for seniors and those suffering with memory loss.
At Memorial Satilla Health, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our Waycross community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way. Waycross and its neighboring town of Blackshear, collectively offer excellent public schools, an active art and theater group, several golf courses, and an excellent array of hiking, fishing, camping and boating fun.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Clinical Resource RN opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
