RN New Graduate Nurse, Emergency Department

About the Role

This twelve-month Nurse Residency program supports the transition from academia to practice for new graduate nurses at UNC Health Rex. The program offers wrap-around support from all levels of nursing to assist new nurses in developing competence and confidence in the professional role.

Key Responsibilities

• Education:
• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• 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 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:
• 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 that 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 a 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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina by the day of clinical care.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
• If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.

Qualifications

• Nursing student in their final semester of nursing program or;
• Nursing graduate within 12 months of graduation; and
• RN who has worked less than 6 months as a registered nurse.