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 and responsibility for the practice of nursing
• •Effective teamwork
• •Delegation skills
• •Communication skills
• •Respect
• •Personal development
• •Development of team members
• •Ability to build rapport between nurses and physicians
• •Service to patients
• •Upholding the voice of the patient
• •Support of system policies and procedures
• •Support of service excellence goals
• •Culturally aware patient care
• •Partner in care
• •Night shift availability
• •Ability to monitor equipment inventory, location and utilization
• •Ability to participate in planning and requesting resources
• •Ability to assist in acquiring appropriate staffing during unexpected staffing shortages or surges in census
• •Ability to proactively plan for the care of patients across the care continuum
• •Ability to participate in the development of protocols and procedures
• •Ability to make patient assignments
• •Ability to consider new grads, float and type of patient
• •Ability to perform daily discharge/length of stay review
• •Ability to round with physicians/surgeons
• •Ability to assign surgery beds in conjunction with surgery schedule
• •Ability to consult with supervisor nursing administration on bed flow and availability
• •Ability to manage waiting room and multiple areas open at different times
• •Ability to round on every patient daily to evaluate quality and appropriateness of patient care
• •Ability to perform or provide oversight for the Nursing Process
• •Ability to utilize analytical/critical thinking
• •Ability to coordinate care through effective partnerships
• •Ability to provide relationship based care delivery
• •Ability to partner with the patient and significant others
• •Ability to use comprehensive hand-off communication processes
• •Ability to conduct interdisciplinary evaluation and communication
• •Ability to provide just in time and planned patient teaching
• •Ability to keep the patient informed using appropriate communication tools
• •Ability to make the patients goals the focus of the plan of care
• •Ability to practice using current clinical practice standards with a focus on safety and quality
• •Ability to communicate with nurse manager and/or assistant nurse manager
• •Ability to coordinate the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care
• •Ability to promote interdisciplinary communication and regular interdisciplinary planning/rounds
• •Ability to complete timely documentation
• •Ability to promote a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
• •Ability to demonstrate teamwork and collaboration
• •Ability to practice in a manner that is fiscally responsible
• •Ability to promote the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members
• •Ability to participate and support performance improvement
• •Ability to initiate and/or lead activities
• •Ability to promote an inter/intra-disciplinary processes
• •Ability to actively support/participate in shared governance at all levels in the system
• •Ability to ensure patient/family/staff confidentiality
• •Ability to complete all required mandatory education and proficiencies
• •Ability to serve as a preceptor (or mentor) for other professional nurses
• •Ability to model the professional practice of nursing
• •Ability to create a healthy work environment
• •Ability to promote Evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing
• •Ability to participate in activities such as value analysis
• •Ability to uphold all health care system/organizational policies and procedures