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We're a Little Different
Our mission is clear. We bring to life a healing ministry through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
At Mercy, we believe in careers that match the unique gifts of unique individuals – careers that not only make the most of your skills and talents, but also your heart. Join us and discover why Modern Healthcare Magazine named us in its “Top 100 Places to Work.”
Provides and/or guides care to a specialized group of patients. Serves as a clinical resource or consultant in area of specialty or expertise, assists in planning and providing educational opportunities in clinical area. Coordinates Co-worker Orientation and development. Participates in quality improvement activities. Performs duties and responsibilities in a manner consistent with our mission, values, and Mercy Service Standards.Safety/Risk Management
- Demonstrates safe medication administration.
- Follows all policies/procedures for Incident Report/Sentinel Events.
- Follows all confidentiality policies/procedures.
- Complies with infection control guidelines and assists in measuring staff compliance and hand hygiene.
- Creates a safe environment through various safety practices including, but not limited to:
- Fall precaution
- Restraint management
- Utilization of Patient I.D. identifiers
- Read back of telephone and verbal orders; sign off of daily orders
- Time out procedures
- Communication hand offs.
- Unit/Department specific policies
- Respects patients'/guests' personal property.
- Adheres to hospital wide and department-specific safety regulations including, but not limited to:
- Fire and tornado
- Environmental safety
- Complies with patients' rights/regulations and serves as a coach/mentor for others. Talks to families and
listens to their concerns.
- Coordinates equipment safety checks and inservices staff on all new devices related to area of concern.
Coordination of Services
- Functions as a Clinical Instructor for the area for Respiratory Therapists, students, nurses and physicians.
- Coordinates workflow by communicating to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
- Participates in Physician rounds.
- Identifies and resolves problems related to patient, families, physicians, staff, and equipment.
- Demonstrates ability to direct and/or assist with the work activities of department consistent with patient
needs and staff capabilities.
- Serves as a resource for preventing and/or resolving patient related clinical issues/conflicts.
- Evaluates practice and effectively implements change as result of Quality Improvement (QI) studies or
research.
- Assists in research projects.
- Provide teaching and one-on-one in-servicing to the Respiratory staff on all new policy and procedure and equipment
- Meets on a regular basis for the area to assist on change and to promote daily goals and assessment.
- Serves as a facilitator for collaboration with other health care team members.
- Assists in development, review and/or revision of unit orientation process.
- Assists in coordinating individual orientation in collaboration with preceptor, supervisor, staffing
coordinators and orientee.
- Provides both informal and formal feedback on orientees progress to both orientee and to supervisor.
Provides a quiz for area with feedback for orientee.
- Assists/coordinates development and/or revision of unit specific policies and procedures.
- Facilitates development, review and implementation of policies and procedures that relate to area of
practice.
- Participates in and/or coordinates formal unit QI program. Provides data of quality for staff to reach
goals for area of practice.
- Assists in evaluation of QI outcomes and implements appropriate interventions to correct variances.
- Makes independent decisions in routine and complex situations and informs appropriate team members of actions and results.
- Demonstrates ability to collaborate with inter and intra- disciplinary colleagues and community
Primary Aspects
- Demonstrates proper time management skills and priority setting.
- Assists and guides staff in providing care and documenting within accepted standards of practice.
- Independently identifies, assesses, and evaluates complex physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of
patient/families, and provides direction to others in developing their assessment skills
d Accepts responsibility for keeping self informed of current Respiratory practice. Reviews research and
provides this information to staff to change practice.
- Provides and/or coordinates staff education programs in area of clinical expertise. Provide opportunity for
staff to reach their CEU requirements by teaching and providing other clinical experts to attain these
annual requirements.
- Provides one on one teaching at the bed
We Offer Great Benefits:
Day-one comprehensive health, vision and dental coverage, PTO, tuition reimbursement and employer-matched retirement funds are just a few of the great benefits offered to eligible co-workers, including those working 32 hours or more per pay period!
We're bringing to life a healing ministry through compassionate care.
At Mercy, our supportive community will be behind you every step of your day, especially the tough ones. You will have opportunities to pioneer new models of care and transform the health care experience through advanced technology and innovative procedures. We're expanding to help our communities grow. Join us and be a part of it all.
What Makes You a Good Match for Mercy?
Compassion and professionalism go hand-in-hand with us. Having a positive outlook and a strong sense of advocacy is in perfect step with our mission and vision. We're also collaborative and unafraid to do a little extra to deliver excellent care – that's just part of our commitment. If that sounds like a good fit for you, we encourage you to apply.
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