Description:
Job Summary:
Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Keeps up to date on evidence-based patient resuscitation practices.Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values.
Essential Responsibilities:
- The Rapid Response Team RN demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
- Leadership:
- Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values and behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs and sets priorities for the department.
- Provides professional leadership and direction of unit staff during inpatient medical emergencies in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.
- Coordinates departmental operations and delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g. RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports and enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs and Uas/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).
- Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state and federal laws and regulations, and accreditation and licensure requirements.
- Champions new ideas; Actively collaborates with others through the change process.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members in department specific operations and patient care activities.
- Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Facilitates inter-professional/inderdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
- Manages post-code debriefs with the code team.
- Nursing Process:
- Serves as a resource for clinical concerns, scope of practice and applicable state and federal regulations as well as operational concerns of providers and staff. Possesses experience and skills to be a resource for providers, RNs, LVNs, Uss/CNAs (and other ansillary staff as appropriate).
- Monitors hospital inpatient population to identify patients at risk of decline.
- Partners with primary RN to provide a critical care perspective in treating declining patients.
- Escalates care as appropriate; demonstrates excellent interdisciplinary communication skills (e.g., SBAR communication to covering hospitalist).
- Actively involved in orienting, and precepting and coashing staff as needed.
- Documentation:
- Champions code blue documentation standards
- Reviews multiple patient charts as a function of monitoring the hospital inpatient population
- Ensures clinically correct documentation
- Clinical Outcomes:
- Participates/leads various aspects of department operations, staff competencies, department committees, Unit Based Teams (UBTs), new projects, quality efforts, and educational programs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of patients specific conditions commonly seen in the department and care required. Interfaces with leadership, peers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and support staff regarding performance, as necessary.
- Actively participates, champions and motivates other staff in quality improvement in patient care, workflow, and improvement in clinical initiatives and working conditions of the department. Provides input on employees performance evaluations through daily observation and monitoring of performance.
- Workplace Safety:
- Adjusts staffing needs of the department to assure quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of provider and staff. Actively models Labor-Management Partnership (LMP) Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Patient Care Experience/Customer Service:
- Acts as a role model for staff regarding providing a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
- Ensures timely and appropriate management of patients.
- Coordinates smooth transition for patients across the care continuum.
- Team Commitment:
- Identifies and supports staff professional/clinical development needs (i.e., certification, presentations, reward/recognition).
- Motivates staff to attain their fullest potential in improving performance, attendance, access, service and quality outcomes. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Fiscal Responsibility:
- Participates in resource allocation (assignments, scheduling, staffing, equipment/supplies management). Collaborates and assists with leadership, physicians, and peers in staffing, workflow and throughput to promote quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of providers and staff.
- Professional Development:
- Attends Critical Care & RRT Educational programs. Takes responsibility for professional growth and development.
- Demonstrates independence in job duties; can function in multiple inpatient units and provide support to areas with greatest need.
- Ability to function as a leader in critical triage scenarios. Knowledgeable in resuscitation standards and technique.
- Supports positive patient outcomes through proactive and reactive rounding practices. Functions as a team lead in patient decline scenarios (e.g., Rapid Response, Code Blue).
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- 3+ years (within the last 5 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care, or 2 years (within the last 3 years) Critical Care experience and successful completion of a KP Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 3 years
Education
License, Certification, Registration
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experienced in Program Support (e.g., program champion, involvement in process improvement, charge RN experience, Emergency Department experience) OR 1yr+ experience as relief RRT RN
- BSN
- PALS certification
- CCRN or equivalent
Notes:
- If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will 7:30 pm- 8:00am, back up 8 hour shift will be 11:30 pm to 8:00 am.
