RN Charge Nurse
On-siteAustell, Georgia, United States
Austell, Georgia, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeLicense Or CertificationEnterprise
Full TimeLicense Or CertificationEnterprise
Job Summary
Direct and oversee daily unit activities on night shifts, including making patient assignments, managing bed flow, and consulting with supervisors on resource availability. Conduct daily patient rounds to evaluate care quality, coordinate interdisciplinary rounds with physicians, and perform modified patient care assignments as needed. Monitor equipment inventory, participate in staffing planning for surges, and lead performance improvement initiatives to reduce re-admissions and adverse events. Serve as a preceptor for new grads and mentor team members while ensuring compliance with the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and WellStar's shared governance model.
Required Qualifications
- RN license
- 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 knowledge
- 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 practice
- WellStar Shared Governance Model practice
- WellStar Professional Nursing Practice Model practice
- Evidence based practice
- Evidence based research
- WellStar Core Competencies
- Interdisciplinary team membership
- Licensed and unlicensed care givers collaboration
- Individualized high quality, safe patient care
- Proactive member of an interdisciplinary team
- Resource to other areas
- Opportunity to learn about operational functionality
- Hospital/facility awareness
- Assisting in the growth and development of team members
- Building department skills sets
- Inspiring expertise
- Building rapport between nurses and physicians
- Role model to others
- Upholding the voice of the patient
- Supporting service excellence goals
- Advanced clinical expertise
- Utilizing expertise to support and promote the delivery of safe, age appropriate and culturally aware patient care
- Serving as a partner in care
- Monitoring equipment inventory
- Location of equipment
- Utilization of equipment
- Ensuring staff have tools and equipment needed to perform their job
- Participating in planning and requesting resources
- Providing high quality care
- Assisting in acquiring appropriate staffing
- Unexpected staffing shortages management
- Surges in census management
- Proactive planning for the care of patients
- Care across the care continuum
- Direct patient care
- Participating in the development of protocols and procedures
- Collaboration with care managers
- Other members of the health care team
- Best practice outcomes
- Decrease in re-admission rates
- Avoidable days
- Adverse events
- Make Patient Assignments
- Consideration for new grads
- Float consideration
- Type of patient consideration
- Daily Discharge/Length of Stay Review
- Rounding with Physicians/Surgeons
- Assigning Surgery Beds
- Conjunction with Surgery Schedule
- Consulting with Supervisor Nursing Administration
- House Supervisor
- Bed Flow
- Bed Availability
- Emergency Services Assignments
- Sections management
- Waiting room management
- Multiple areas open at different times
- Rounds on every patient daily
- Evaluation of quality and appropriateness of patient care
- Corrective action when needed
- Utilizing peer coaching
- Accountability
- Performing or providing oversight for the Nursing Process
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Identification of outcomes
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Clinical care using evidence base practice
- Analytical/critical thinking
- Ensuring care is individualized
- Coordinating care through effective partnerships
- Caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes
- Providing or providing oversight for relationship based care delivery
- Patient-centered care
- Partnering with the patient
- Significant others
- Comprehensive hand-off communication processes
- Interdisciplinary evaluation and communication
- Unit rounds
- Case reviews
- Peer review
- Just in time patient teaching
- Planned patient teaching
- Keeping the patient informed
- Appropriate communication tools
- Making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care
- Practicing using current clinical practice standards
- Focus on safety
- Focus on quality
- Emergency Department Setting Charge Nurse rounds
- Modified method in conjunction with nurses
- Focus on patient safety concerns
- Patient care
- Communicating with nurse manager
- Assistant nurse manager
- Needs or concerns pertaining to care delivery
- Employee performance
- Coordinating 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
- Interdisciplinary rounds
- Emergency Services setting
- Demonstrating teamwork and collaboration
- Practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible
- Promotion of the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members
- Participating and supporting performance improvement
- All stakeholders
- Research
- Research utilization
- Promoting safe, quality patient care
- Initiating and/or leading activities
- Promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary processes
- Actively supporting/participating in shared governance
- All levels in the system
- Ensuring patient/family/staff confidentiality
- Corporate compliance
- Completing all required mandatory education
- Proficiencies
- Serving as a preceptor
- Mentor for other professional nurses
- Staff or students for all disciplines
- Current and future qualified workforce
- Modeling the professional practice of nursing
- Creating a healthy work environment
- Promoting Evidence based practice
- Nursing research
- Performance improvement in nursing
- Participating in activities such as value analysis
- Decision making process in evaluating patient care products
- Upholding all health care system/organizational policies and procedures
- Clinical competencies put forth by this job description
- Professional association
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