Charge Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry, FT, Nights

Piedmont Healthcare • Stockbridge, GA

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About The Position

Coordinates the delivery of quality nursing care for patients from birth through the lifecycle and addresses operational issues during the shift. Provides clinical care as needed based on census demands, communicates patient-care and departmental issues and staff concerns to appropriate leaders, and serves as a resource for guidance and assistance to staff. The role also carries out professional nursing practice responsibilities, including assessment, care planning, care coordination, implementation and evaluation of care, ethical and effective communication, collaboration, leadership, evidence-based practice, and promotion of a safe environment.

Requirements

• Graduate from a recognized, accredited school of nursing.
• At least 1 year of nursing experience in a hospital setting.
• Registered Nurse (RN) Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNCL multistate licensure.
• Basic Life Support (BCLS) certification.
• For Cardiac Telemetry, ACLS certification is required; nurse residents or nurses new to the specialty must complete it within 6 months of start date.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Two or more years of nursing experience in a hospital setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery of quality nursing care and address operational issues during the shift.
• Provide clinical care as needed when census demands.
• Communicate patient-care and departmental issues, and staff concerns, to appropriate leaders.
• Serve as a resource for guidance and assistance to staff.
• Collect and analyze healthcare consumer data to identify diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identify expected outcomes and develop individualized plans of care with measurable outcomes.
• Implement the plan of care and coordinate care delivery.
• Promote health and a safe environment, and evaluate progress toward goals and outcomes.
• Practice ethically and in accordance with diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
• Lead within the professional practice setting and profession; seek current nursing knowledge and competence.
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice and contribute to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluate own and others’ nursing practice.
• Use appropriate resources to provide safe, effective, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing services.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level