RN Charge Nurse
On-siteVinings, Georgia, United States
Vinings, Georgia, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeLicense Or CertificationEnterprise
Full TimeLicense Or CertificationEnterprise
Job Summary
Direct and oversee daily unit activities to ensure safe patient care delivery, including making patient assignments, rounding with physicians, managing bed flow, and conducting daily discharge reviews. Proactively plan patient care across the continuum, monitor equipment inventory, and coordinate staffing during surges or shortages. Lead interdisciplinary rounds, perform or oversee the nursing process, and provide peer coaching to ensure quality and appropriateness of care. Serve as a preceptor for new grads and mentors, while participating in shared governance, performance improvement initiatives, and committee work. Rounds on every patient daily to evaluate care and implement corrective actions as needed.
Required Qualifications
- RN licensure
- Knowledge of the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act
- Implementation of the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association
- Advanced clinical expertise
- Ability to build rapport between nurses and physicians
- Role model behavior
- Accountability
- Responsibility
- Authority for the practice of nursing
- Effective teamwork
- Delegation
- Communication
- Respect
- Personal development
- Development of team members
- Establishment and maintenance of practices that ensure excellence in patient care
- Efficient use of resources
- Leadership tasks such as staff schedules
- Unit patient flow
- Subject matter expertise for clinical concerns
- Physician rounding
- Committee involvement
- Survey readiness
- Voice of the patient
- System policies and procedures
- Service excellence goals
- Culturally aware patient care
- Night shift availability
- Ability to monitor equipment inventory, location and utilization
- Planning and requesting resources for providing high quality care
- Acquiring appropriate staffing during unexpected staffing shortages or surges in census
- Proactive planning for the care of patients across the care continuum
- Development of protocols and procedures
- Patient Assignments
- Consideration for new grads, float and type of patient
- Daily Discharge/Length of Stay Review
- Rounding with Physicians/Surgeons
- Assigning Surgery Beds In Conjunction with Surgery Schedule
- Consulting with Supervisor Nursing Administration (House Supervisor) on Bed Flow and Availability
- Emergency Services assignments for sections
- Managing waiting room
- Managing multiple areas open at different times
- Daily rounds on every patient to evaluate quality and appropriateness of patient care
- Utilizing peer coaching and accountability
- Oversight for the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation)
- Evidence base practice
- Analytical/critical thinking
- Individualized care
- Coordinating care through effective partnerships
- Relationship based care delivery
- Patient-centered care
- Partnering with the patient and significant others
- Comprehensive hand-off communication processes
- Interdisciplinary evaluation and communication
- Unit rounds
- Case reviews
- Peer review
- Just in time and planned patient teaching
- Keeping the patient informed using appropriate communication tools
- Making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care
- Practicing using current clinical practice standards with a focus on safety and quality
- Modified method rounds on patients in the Emergency Department Setting
- Focus on patient safety concerns
- Communication with nurse manager and/or assistant nurse manager
- Coordination of the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care
- Promotion of interdisciplinary communication
- Regular interdisciplinary planning/rounds
- Completion of timely documentation
- Promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
- Demonstration of teamwork and collaboration
- Fiscal responsibility
- Promotion of the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members
- Participation and support of performance improvement
- Research and research utilization
- Initiating and/or leading activities
- Promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary processes
- Active support/participation in shared governance at all levels in the system
- Ensuring patient/family/staff confidentiality
- Corporate compliance
- Completing all required mandatory education and proficiencies
- Serving as a preceptor (or mentor) for other professional nurses
- Mentoring staff or students for all disciplines
- Modeling the professional practice of nursing
- Creating a healthy work environment
- Promotion of Evidence based practice
- Nursing research
- Performance improvement in nursing
- Participation in activities such as value analysis
- Upholding all health care system/organizational policies and procedures
- Upholding clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association
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