Registered Nurse RN New Grad Resource Team

About the Role

The Banner Health New Nurse Experience is a full-time Registered Nurse position designed to assist new graduates in transitioning into competent, professional nurses. This program offers a collaborative learning environment to refine nursing skills, enhance knowledge, and build professional relationships. Successful candidates will be placed in specific units and receive clinical mentorship. The program aims to support various career pathways, including specialty units, leadership roles, and non-bedside nursing. A commitment of at least 12 months on the assigned unit is expected for a comprehensive training experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Assesses patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, and discharge planning needs.
• Reviews patient history and physical with patient/family, ensuring completion within the appropriate timeframe.
• Reviews available information from other healthcare team members.
• Reviews diagnostic and laboratory data, reporting abnormal results to physicians and other appropriate caregivers.
• Completes assessments and reassessments according to patient need and policy.
• Formulates a plan of care, including the discharge plan, utilizing assessment data and input from the patient, family, and health team.
• Initiates a plan of care based on patient-specific needs, assessment data, and the medical plan of care, with realistic and measurable goals developed in conjunction with the patient/family.
• Considers the physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age-specific, and educational needs of the patient in the plan of care.
• Plans care in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Reviews and revises the plan of care to reflect changing patient needs based on evaluation of the patient’s status.
• Implements the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation, and supervision of the healthcare team's activities.
• Provides care based on physician orders and the nursing plan of care, in compliance with policies, procedures, standards of care, and regulatory agency requirements.
• Delegates appropriately and provides nursing supervision in the provision of care to patients by other licensed nurses and personnel.
• Promotes continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating patient status to other caregivers.
• Evaluates the patient's and family's response to care and teaching, revising the plan of care as needed.
• Evaluates patient progress towards goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other healthcare team members.
• Evaluates patient's response and the effectiveness of patient teaching.
• Documents assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in the patient record, ensuring legibility, timeliness, and adherence to policy.
• Documentation reflects objective/subjective data, nursing interventions, and patient's response to treatment.
• Notes physician orders accurately and in a timely manner.
• Provides care based on the best evidence available and may participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Participates in unit or facility shared leadership.
• Interacts and participates in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families, and visitors.
• Promotes/supports the growth of others through precepting and mentoring when appropriate.
• Contributes to society through activities that lead to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and safe care.
• Actively participates in the improvement of national nursing quality indicators and outcomes.
• May supervise staff and work flow of the department in some roles.
• Interacts with all levels of staff in various departments, physicians, patients, families, and external contacts.
• Synthesizes and prioritizes data from multiple sources to provide support for the patient and family's human response to changes in health status.

Program Activities Include

• Clinical experiences with a preceptor
• Training in the state-of-the-art Banner Simulation Center
• Competency and skills assessment and verification
• Orientation to the Cerner electronic medical health record system
• Patient care skills lab with hands-on equipment experience
• e-Learning modules

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Cerner electronic medical health record system
• BLS card (through American Heart Association, Red Cross, or ASHI) or ability to obtain before start date.

Qualifications

• Recent or upcoming graduation from an accredited nursing program.
• BSN is preferred - open to ADN at select locations.
• No more than 12 months of RN experience.
• Previous healthcare experience is preferred.
• Must live within a reasonable commute distance of the facility.

New grads will typically work three 12-hour shifts, including weekend and holiday rotations.

The email used for application is where all updates and information will be sent; a personal email is recommended.