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Work Shift:

Please see job description for details.

Time Type:

Full time

Department:

CC093190 Surgery

Summary:

Employs a deep understanding of the total situation to effectively manage complex and changing patient/family care situations and demonstrates an expert level of critical thinking and nursing practice. Uses expert level of nursing practice to integrate experience, knowledge and skills to intuitively identify problems and appropriate solutions for highly complex situations and effectively provide holistic, individualized patient and family centered care. Encourages critical thinking skills, facilitating effective shared decision making and evidence based practice, coaching and mentoring others.

Additional Information:

Provides a competent level of nursing practice to autonomously provide safe and effective patient and family centered care for patients and families. Uses knowledge, skill, and experience to analyze, think critically, plan, prioritize, and organize care, make appropriate clinical judgments and efficiently manage routine and unexpected clinical situations.

Required Education:

Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college program or technical school or nursing diploma

Recommended Education:

Bachelor's Degree Nursing

Required Work Experience:

1 of the following

Recommended Work Experience:

Demonstrated performance of 100% at the previous level and score within documented RN II/III levels via ACHieve career ladder for internal employees., Nursing - 1 year of experience

Required Certifications:

Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State

Recommended Certifications:

Certification specific to patient population -

Description

1. Demonstrates and leads advancement of practices which promote the application of the AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care. Role models and leads partnerships with patients, families, and other providers to plan, deliver, evaluate and promote highly individualized care that ensures achievement of effective self-care by patients and families. Facilitates and leads the planning and delivery of high quality, comprehensive and holistic care for complex patient situations. Anticipates needs across the care continuum for patients and families and acts a resource to others in doing the same.

2. Consistently provides safe and effective nursing care at a expert level. Role models and leads efforts to ensure increasingly complex practice issues are current and in accordance with policies and procedures, professional practice standards , state Practice Act/Rules and Regulations. Demonstrates expert technical and procedural nursing skills. Excels in leading efforts toward more effective interdisciplinary communication and assists others with navigating complex communication ensuring continuity of care to achieve desired patient outcomes.

3. Demonstrates expertise in assessing all types of patient complexities and provides leadership for developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive care. Recognizes the importance of and leads incorporation of appropriate diversional, play, or recreational activities into the routine care of specialized patient populations.

4. Analyzes increasingly complex patient/ family information to identify problems and outcomes; evaluates variations and patterns in data, and applies innovative best practice solutions. Confirms patient/family are achieving desired outcomes according to the plan of care; leads others in the developing the plan of care for complex patients in collaboration with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team members. Intuitively responds appropriately to changes in increasingly complex patient conditions; Leads others in escalation of care process improvements.

5. Provides individualized patient and family education at an expert level, anticipates learning needs of patient population, and leads efforts to meet learning needs. Expertly assesses and identifies gaps in current resources for patient and family learning needs and develops appropriate education plans and resources. Assesses completeness of all patient and family education and recognizes additional needs in comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching; Recognizes trends and patterns in patient and family education needs, leads activities to improve processes.

6. Leads the advancement of evidence-based nursing practice using best available evidence, patient’s and family’s preferences and values, and team’s clinical expertise. Leads in the search for and appropriate application of evidence to guide clinical practice.

7. Exemplifies, supports and serves as a resource for understanding the AC Professional Practice Model. Evaluates self, coaches and evaluates other's performance to identify areas of strength and needs for as well as professional development.

8. Leads Interdisciplinary Shared Decision Making Councils. Serves as a resource, and mentors to other council members. Leads special committees and hospital initiatives to improve outcomes.

9. Leads in the introduction of new and innovative improvements in patient care, nursing practice and image, and the work environment. Identifies new products and equipment and leads in product and equipment evaluation, technology assessment. Leads in identifying gaps and managing changes in work process related to adoption of new products and technology.

10. Leads activities which foster accountability in all team members to ensure quality of patient care across settings and caregivers. Leads efforts to foster a culture of advocacy for patients, families, and AC Team.

11. Serves in key roles, mentors others, and helps to lead effective group processes with clear outcomes on councils, committees, hospital initiatives. onboarding, recruitment and retention activities and assists with evaluation and improvement of these practices as needed. Successfully leads individuals, groups, and activities to solve increasingly complex issues and achieve patient goals and positive outcomes.

12. Assists in leading AC team to engage in clinical networking and community organizations which promote health and wellness.

13. Expertly leads in mentoring, coaching, precepting or teaching other healthcare professionals and students. Identifies mechanisms to increase professional development of the team.

14. Performs other duties as assigned.

Arkansas Children’s (https://www.archildrens.org/about-us) is the only hospital system in the state dedicated to caring for children, which enables us to uniquely shape the landscape of pediatric care in Arkansas.

Arkansas Children’s is driven by four core values—safety, teamwork, compassion and excellence—which inform every action.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital has received Magnet Status (https://www.archildrens.org/about-us/magnet-recognition) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), for nursing excellence and patient outcomes. And we are nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report (https://www.archildrens.org/about-us/awards-and-recognition) for Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery and Urology.

For more than a century, Arkansas Children’s has met the unique needs of children. But we’re more than just a hospital treating sick kids—our services include two hospitals, a pediatric research institute, foundation, clinics, education and outreach, all with an unyielding commitment to making children better today and healthier tomorrow.

Arkansas Children’s Little Rock campus includes a 336-bed hospital with the state’s only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, burn center, Level 4 neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care, as well as a nationally-recognized transport service. And Arkansas Children’s Northwest (https://www.archildrens.org/locations/arkansas-childrens-nw) provides inpatient and emergency care, clinic rooms and diagnostic services to children in that corner of the state.

_“Arkansas Children’s is a place of hope and comfort for children and parents. When you are at children’s, you are part of an elite team united with a common goal of saving children and making their lives better.”_ Michael – Business Operations Manager

•Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a prestigious institution that cares for children.” Linda – Information Systems Analyst

•We are an organization of care, love, and hope while we champion children.” Angela – Parking and Fleet Coordinator

•Care, love, and hope for children!” Kathy – Administrative Assistant

•When I think of my time here at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, I can honestly say that it has given me a unique perspective on the human condition, and the various roles that we all have in patient care. As a supply assistant, I have a very important job ensuring that the doctors and nurses have what they need to provide the world class medical care to the Children of Arkansas and surrounding states. Being a Champion for Children is more than a catch phrase, it is a way of life!” Nick – Supply Assistant

Arkansas Children's provides equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin or citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. Further, Arkansas Children's will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.