GENERAL SUMMARY

+ Provides leadership in the coordination and delivery of quality compassionate patient care.

+ Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, to provide, delegate, supervise and document care and teaching of patients and family.

+ Effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to health care team.

+ Participates in finding solutions for variances from patient goals and ensures implementation of solutions

+ Acts as a patient advocate while utilizing the nursing process to plan, deliver, and evaluate goal focused, individualized, safe, age specific care for all patients including those with complex pathophysiological needs and/or psychosocial needs.

Unit Description:

2GPU is a post-surgical unit with a specialty focused on Orthopedic surgery patients. Most of our patients come from PACU after a number of different surgeries including bariat...