Clinical Leader RN MNA Transplant Unit
Company: Tufts Medical Center
Location: Boston
Posted on: May 7, 2024
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Job Description:
We're saving lives, building careers, and reimagining
healthcare. We can't wait to grow alongside you.
Tufts Medical Center is recognized by the ANCC Magnet Recognition
Program - for excellence in nursing. Magnet - recognition is the
highest and most prestigious credential a health care organization
can achieve for nursing excellence and quality patient care. Magnet
- recognition signals to nurses that the organization is committed
to nursing.The nurses at Tufts Medical Center are integral to
everything we do. They are often the ones patients interact with
first, and sometimes the ones they interact with the most. It's a
critically important role, so our nurses are well-supported,
well-respected, and very well-appreciated!There's an intensity and
a pace to be embraced. You will have responsibility and
accountability the minute you pull on the scrubs. You need to be
the kind of person who gives everything you've got. Our patients
deserve the best. Our nurses give it to them.The Transplant Unit is
a 28-bed unit. The clinical registered nurse has the opportunity to
partner with our growing abdominal transplant team to care for both
liver and kidney transplant recipients as well as living organ
donors. RNs actively participate in continuing education and
quality initiatives to care for this complex patient population
including active participation in transplant team meetings such as
QAPI and M&M. Team members collaborate with multiple
disciplines across the continuum of patient care to create a
holistic experience for our patients. Clinical transplant nurses
are eligible for board certification after completing 1000 hours of
direct clinical experience in the transplant unit.Position/Job
Title: Clinical Leader RNHome Department: Transplant (Floating
7)Job Description -Minimum Qualifications: -1. Three (3) years of
demonstrated clinical nursing practice including progressive
leadership responsibilities. -2. Registered Nurse (RN) License. -3.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certified. - -Preferred Qualifications:
-1. Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).2. Specialty Nursing
certifications. -3. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required
for ICU, ED, PACU, and Cardiac intervential unit. - -Duties and
Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are
intended to describe the general nature of work and are not
intended to be an all-inclusive list. - Other duties and
responsibilities may be assigned. - -1. Contributes to an
environment that facilitates the development of clinical expertise
of staff via role modeling, teaching, and coaching/mentoring. -2.
Uses knowledge and expertise to identify potential problems and/or
resources for patients and families. -3. Ensures all staff maintain
competency-based practice based upon patient population. -4.
Utilizes an ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice
and providing informed practice. - Creates practice changes through
research utilization and experiential learning. -5. Anticipates and
identifies opportunities to apply evidence based practice. -6.
Develops and implements a process improvement plan for area(s) of
responsibility. -7. Maintains and develops clinical knowledge,
judgment and skills. -8. Proposes topics to explore and
participates in nursing research. -9. Supervises unit/department
personnel by evaluating work performance, providing guidance and
timely feedback based on outcome measures. -10. Maintains a working
knowledge of clinical and patient satisfaction initiatives, key
performance indicators, standards of nursing practice and outcomes
of patient care. -11. Practices a constellation of nursing
activities that are responsive to the uniqueness of the person that
creates a compassionate and therapeutic environment, with the aim
of promoting comfort and preventing unnecessary suffering. -
Includes but not limited to vigilance, engagement and
responsiveness of caregivers, including family and healthcare
personnel. -12. Identifies need to coordinate patient care
conferences to help ensure best caring practices and outcomes for
patients and families. -13. Participates in interdisciplinary
rounds to address, patient/family needs, and discharge planning.
-14. Fosters patient, family, and professional relationships that
are reciprocal and synergistic, characterized by mutual respect and
professional growth. -15. Sensitivity to recognize, appreciate, and
incorporate differences and preferences into the provision of care.
- Differences include but are not limited to cultural differences
and preferences, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race,
ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age and values. -16.
Identifies issues arising from individual differences and develops
awareness of these issues in nursing staff, medical staff, and
other healthcare providers. -17. Role models, teaches and/or
provides age specific and developmentally appropriate patient care
in accordance with established guidelines and scope of practice. -
-18. Identifies and encourages resolution of conflicts between
others without making any party feel diminished. -19. Respects,
appreciates and supports the diversity of ideas, thoughts, and
competencies among staff, peers, colleagues and customers. -20.
Advocates and represents the concerns of the
patient/family/community; serving as a moral agent in identifying
and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within the
clinical setting. -21. Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to
represent the concerns of patients/families/staff. -22. Works in
collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to balance
interventions with values that emphasize quality of life, consumer
choice, risk benefit decisions, access to care, and integrity of
human life. - -23. Supports an ethical foundation for professional
practice and patient care. - -24. - Supports proactive
identification and addressing of ethical issues through a
systematic process utilizing the ethics advisory committee as
needed. -25. Promotes healthcare at the local, state, national,
and/or international level. -26. Takes professional risks by
demonstrating commitment to issues and values he/she truly believe
in. -27. Supports staff in the delivery of appropriate
patient/family education. - - -28. Evaluates the effectiveness of
patient/family education and identifies opportunities for
improvement. -29. Monitors the learning needs of staff and
communicates opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills. -30.
Serves as an expert and role model or mentor for professional
practice. -31. Identifies avenues to pursue own professional
growth. -32. Provides constructive feedback, support and resources
to enable the nursing staff to develop skills and abilities. -33.
Demonstrates awareness of self and other's communication style and
adjusts to meet the needs of the situation. -34. Inspires and
motivates oneself and staff to pursue advanced education and/or
certification. -35. Encourages others to become an active member of
professional organizations. - -36. Supports staff's professional
and personal growth. -37. Encourages staff to seek clinical
advancement via the Professional Recognition Program. -38. Engages
self and others in self-development appraisal on a regular basis
identifying areas of strength as well as areas for
personal/professional development. -39. Promotes and encourages
others (patients/families/healthcare providers/community) to
achieve optimal and realistic patient goals. - Collaboration
involved interdisciplinary work with colleagues and the ability to
negotiate and resolve conflict. -40. Role models, teaches, and/or
mentors professional leadership and accountability for nursing's
role within the health care team. -41. Leads and/or participates in
departmental and hospital programs, committees, and/or special
projects to achieve desired outcomes. -42. Improves the quality of
care through shared governance principles. - -43. Communicates
important information via shift to shift huddles. -44.Recognizes,
responds, and provides follow-up on issues, concerns, and
suggestions on behalf of the patient population and staff. -45.
Provides timely follow-up on critical incidents/sentinel events.
-46. Assumes accountability for daily operations at the unit level.
-47. On a daily basis allocates resources and coordinates services
to optimize patient care and services. -48. Provides input in
developing and monitoring operating and capital budget; implements
strategies to improve efficiency and reduce costs. -49. Recognizes
the potential impact of change on all people involved. -50. Keeps
current on regulatory issues and trends and employs strategies to
meet standards in a proactive manner. - -Physical Requirements: -
-1. Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing and walking. -2.
Lifts, positions, pushes and / or transfers patients. -3.
Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching. -4.
Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases. -5. Contact
with patients under wide variety of circumstances. -6. Subject to
varying and unpredictable situations. -7. Handles emergency and
crisis situations. - -Skills & Abilities: -1. Clinical reasoning,
which includes clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and a
global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired
through a process of integrating formal and experiential knowledge.
-2. Ability to facilitate patient, family and staff learning across
the care continuum. - Contributes to a learning environment
characterized by safe discourse, mentoring and team development.
-3. Demonstrated leadership abilities; able to work under stressful
situations; possesses good oral and written communication skills
and is able to effectively work in a changing environment. -4.
Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families,
physicians, and healthcare team -5. Excels at demonstrating the
knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients in the
relevant area of nursing practice -6. Ability to be flexible,
organized and function well under stressful situations. - -
Tufts Medicine is a leading integrated health system bringing
together the best of academic and community healthcare to deliver
exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers
across Massachusetts. Comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell
General Hospital, MelroseWakefield Hospital, Lawrence Memorial
Hospital of Medford, Care at Home - an expansive home care network,
and large integrated physician network. We are an equal opportunity
employer and value diversity and inclusion at Tufts Medicine. Tufts
Medicine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic
information, veteran status, national origin, gender identity
and/or expression, marital status or any other characteristic
protected by federal, state or local law. We will ensure that
individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation
to participate in the job application or interview process, to
perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and
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