Job Summary:
Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Essential Duties:
-Education: Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
-Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
-With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
-Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
-Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
-Evaluation of Care -Identifies expected patient outcomes.
-Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care.
-Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care.
-Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
-Implementation: Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
-Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
-Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care.
-Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs.
-Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
-Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
-Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
-Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
-Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
-Effectively uses communication systems.
-Participates in promoting cost-effective care.
-Gives feedback to co-workers.
-Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
-Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
-Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
-Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs.
-Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others.
-Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
-Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
-Planning: Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care.
-Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care.
-Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning.
-Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
-Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
-Research: Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
-Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Required Skills & Experience:
-One (1) year of nursing experience.

Preferred Skills & Experience: 
-N/A

Required Education:
-Nursing Diploma.
OR
-ADN or ASN from an accredited school of Nursing.

Preferred Education:
-BSN or MSN from an accredited school of Nursing.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
-Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
-Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification (AHA or ARC).
-ACLS (AHA or ARC).

Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
-N/A