Job Summary: Definition of Shared Governance: Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care. Standards of Care • Assessment • Medical-surgical nurses collect client health data. • Diagnosis • Medical-surgical nurses analyze the assessment data in determining diagnosis. • Outcome Identification • Medical-surgical nurses identify expected outcomes unique to the client. • Planning • Medical-surgical nurses develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. • Implementation • Medical-surgical nurses implement the interventions identified in the plan of care. • Evaluation • Medical-surgical nurses evaluate the client's progress toward attainment of outcomes. Essential Job Duties: Performance Standards • Quality Care • The Medical-surgical nurse systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice. • Performance Appraisal • Medical-surgical nurses evaluate their own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, statutes, and regulations. • Education • Medical-surgical nurses acquire and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice. Medical-surgical nurses pursue knowledge to enhance nursing expertise and advance the profession. • Collegiality • Medical-surgical nurses interact with, and contribute to, the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues. • Ethics • Medical-surgical nurses deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, sensitive, and culturally competent manner. • Collaboration • Medical-surgical nurses collaborate with the client, family members, significant others, and health care providers in providing care. • Research • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice. • Resource Utilization • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice. • Communication • Medical-surgical nurses communicate effectively with clients, families, and other health care professionals. • Leadership • Medical-surgical nurses use leadership skills to enhance client outcomes and foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession. Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned: • Monitor resources to maintain unit staffing standards and promote world class levels of patient satisfaction and outcomes. • Collaborates with the team to support a healthy work environment. • Assists with and/or facilitates resolution or management of customer issues/concerns/comments. • Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing effective January 2017 (with the exception of staff previously granted grandfather status). • Licensure: Registered Nurse license from the Indiana State Board of Nursing. • Experience: One year of nursing experience; specialty certification preferred. • Required to maintain current BLS. Specific departments may also require current ACLS or PALS.