Registered Nurse (RN) PATT - PT Days (Thursday & Friday.)
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The RN Clinical Nurse works as an active part of a mixed team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers, helping ensure patients, families, and loved ones get safe, high-quality, individualized care. This role operates within a clinical setting led by Nurse Managers and other leadership, guided by Wellstar's Shared Governance Model.
Job description
Job Summary
The RN Clinical Nurse works as an active part of a mixed team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers, helping ensure patients, families, and loved ones get safe, high-quality, individualized care. This role operates within a clinical setting led by Nurse Managers and other leadership, guided by Wellstar's Shared Governance Model.
Core Responsibilities
Clinical Excellence and Outcomes
- Carries out the full nursing process — assessing, diagnosing, identifying outcomes, planning, implementing, and evaluating — grounded in evidence-based practice and critical thinking
- Delivers patient-centered care that accounts for population-specific factors with sensitivity to cultural differences
- Partners consistently with patients and their loved ones through bedside shift reports, interdisciplinary rounds, and timely patient education
- Applies current clinical practice standards
Collaboration and Teamwork
- Coordinates safe, well-documented patient care including inclusive interdisciplinary communication, timely documentation, and a respectful clinical environment
- Works in a fiscally responsible way that supports recruiting and retaining healthcare team members
- Engages in and supports performance improvement efforts involving all stakeholders and research
Professional Growth
- Completes all required competency assessments and mandatory/population-specific training
- Mentors or precepts other nurses, staff, or students to help build a strong current and future workforce
Evidence-Based Practice and Research
- Promotes evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement, including participating in value analysis
- Follows all organizational policies, procedures, and clinical standards, including legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements such as TJC Patient Safety Goals
- Contributes to data collection, raises relevant clinical questions, and consults appropriate experts and evidence to address practice issues
Resource Management
- Plans proactively for patient care across the full care continuum
- Helps develop protocols and procedures, working with care managers and others to improve outcomes
- Supports efficient use of staff and material resources
- Performs other assigned duties and follows all Wellstar policies and code of conduct
Requirements
- Associate's degree, nursing diploma, or Bachelor's in Nursing (BSN preferred)
- RN license (single state) or multi-state Compact RN license
- BLS certification (Basic Life Support, American Red Cross BLS, or BLS Instructor)
- Experience and knowledge of a variety of surgical procedures required
- English proficiency (reading, writing, speaking)
- Comfortable using technology and basic computer skills
- Strong interpersonal, collaborative, and customer service abilities
- Able to stay composed, decisive, and respectful in fast-paced or emergency situations
- Solid time management
- Uses evidence-based, analytical, and critical thinking skills in practice
- Preferred: Direct patient care experience
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.