RN Charge Nurse

Job Summary

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
• •Other tasks as assigned by the manager
• •Operational functionality awareness
• •Hospital/facility awareness
• •Growth and development of team members
• •Building department skills sets
• •Inspiring expertise
• •Voice of the patient
• •System policies and procedures
• •Service excellence goals
• •Culturally aware patient care
• •Partner in care
• •Age appropriate patient care
• •Safe patient care
• •Night shift availability
• •Modified patient care assignment capability
• •Clinical environment administration understanding
• •WellStar Shared Governance Model knowledge
• •WellStar Professional Nursing Practice Model knowledge
• •Evidence based practice knowledge
• •Evidence based research knowledge
• •Interdisciplinary team collaboration
• •Licensed and unlicensed care giver management
• •Individualized high quality, safe patient care delivery
• •Equipment inventory monitoring
• •Equipment location monitoring
• •Equipment utilization monitoring
• •Staff tool and equipment needs identification
• •Planning and requesting resources for high quality care
• •Appropriate staffing acquisition during unexpected staffing shortages
• •Surge in census management
• •Patient care across the care continuum planning
• •Direct patient care provision
• •Protocol and procedure development
• •Protocol and procedure self-initiation
• •Collaboration with care managers
• •Collaboration with other members of the health care team
• •Best practice outcomes achievement
• •Re-admission rate decrease
• •Avoidable days reduction
• •Adverse events reduction
• •Patient assignment making
• •New grad consideration
• •Float consideration
• •Type of patient consideration
• •Daily Discharge/Length of Stay Review
• •Physician/Surgeon rounding
• •Surgery bed assignment in conjunction with surgery schedule
• •Supervisor Nursing Administration consultation on Bed Flow and Availability
• •Emergency Services section assignments
• •Waiting room management
• •Multiple areas open at different times management
• •Daily patient rounds to evaluate quality and appropriateness of patient care
• •Corrective action when needed
• •Peer coaching
• •Accountability utilization
• •Nursing Process performance oversight
• •Assessment performance
• •Diagnosis performance
• •Identification of outcomes performance
• •Planning performance
• •Implementation performance
• •Evaluation performance
• •Evidence base practice utilization
• •Analytical/critical thinking
• •Individualized care coordination
• •Effective partnerships
• •Optimal patient care outcomes achievement
• •Relationship based care delivery
• •Patient-centered care
• •Partnering with the patient
• •Partnering with significant others
• •Comprehensive hand-off communication processes
• •Interdisciplinary evaluation
• •Interdisciplinary communication
• •Unit rounds
• •Case reviews
• •Peer review
• •Just in time patient teaching
• •Planned patient teaching
• •Patient goal focus
• •Plan of care development
• •Current clinical practice standards practice
• •Safety focus
• •Quality focus
• •Emergency Department Setting patient rounds
• •Modified method patient rounds
• •Nurse collaboration
• •Patient safety concerns focus
• •Patient care focus
• •Nurse manager communication
• •Assistant nurse manager communication
• •Needs or concerns pertaining to care delivery
• •Needs or concerns pertaining to employee performance
• •Safe quality patient care delivery coordination
• •Safe quality patient care documentation
• •Interdisciplinary communication promotion
• •Regular interdisciplinary planning/rounds
• •Timely documentation completion
• •Respectful clinical environment promotion
• •Inclusive clinical environment promotion
• •Teamwork and collaboration practice
• •Fiscally responsible practice
• •Recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members promotion
• •Performance improvement participation
• •Performance improvement support
• •All stakeholders participation
• •Research participation
• •Research utilization promotion
• •Safe, quality patient care promotion
• •Initiating and/or leading activities
• •Inter/intra-disciplinary processes support
• •Shared governance participation
• •Patient/family/staff confidentiality
• •Corporate compliance
• •Mandatory education completion
• •Proficiencies completion
• •Preceptor service
• •Mentor service
• •Other professional nurses precepting
• •Staff precepting
• •Students precepting
• •Current and future qualified workforce creation
• •Professional practice of nursing modeling
• •Healthy work environment creation
• •Evidence based practice promotion
• •Nursing research promotion
• •Performance improvement in nursing promotion
• •Value analysis participation
• •Decision making process participation
• •Patient care products evaluation
• •Health care system/organizational policies and procedures upholding
• •Clinical competencies upholding