Nursing
SUMMARY
The Professional Registered Senior Staff Nurse is responsible for providing age appropriate, culturally and ethnically sensitive care, maintaining a safe environment, educating health care workers about healthy practices, and treatment modalities, assuring continuity of care, coordinating the care across settings and among caregivers, managing information, communicating effectively, and utilizing technology. The Senior Staff Nurse utilizes the nursing process which includes the components of assessment, nurse diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation. The role also includes patient advocacy, teaching, performance improvement, leadership and professional development. As a member of the health care team, demonstrates nursing expertise, as a clinician, leader, collaborator and innovator of care and services.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Current Georgia License as a Registered Professional Nurse
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (CPR) Certification
• Three (3) years of clinical experience with at least two (2) years of experience in assigned clinical specialty