Charge Nurse, Internal Medicine Sickle Cell

Froedtert • Milwaukee, WI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As a 4SW RN at our Froedtert Campus, you will enhance your nursing skills and foundation in a fast-paced environment surrounded by a collaborative team and supportive leadership. This role will allow you to be part a unit that highly values a culture of teamwork, safety, and compassionate care for the patients we serve.
The Charge Nurse is a Registered Nurse with unit lead responsibilities for patient flow and adjustment of unit staffing to meet the dynamic needs of the patients. The Charge Nurse will use the nursing process to make ongoing evaluations of patients' acuity, assessments of the staff nurses workload, and anticipate fluctuations in admissions, discharges and transfers. The facilitation of patient flow includes triaging and prioritizing admissions and overseeing the care coordination of patients being discharged/transferred. Daily nurse staffing includes employing effective decision-making behaviors that are used to safely balance changes in patient acuity and census with the availability, experience and competency of the staff nurses, to ensure safe and adequate staffing for all shifts. The Charge Nurse will demonstrate resourcefulness, tactful communication, flexibility, adaptability, decisiveness and awareness of the global needs of the hospital. The Charge Nurse will be a clinical leader and resource on the unit, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to facilitate patient care stay progression and unit goals. The Charge Nurse will assume a patient assignment as determined by the needs of the unit. As appropriate and/or delegated by the Nurse Manager, the Charge Nurse monitors and intervenes in addressing opportunities for assuring regulatory compliance, quality effectiveness and a satisfactory patient experience. When working as a clinical Staff RN the Charge Nurse is a practitioner who is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for an identified group of patients in an inpatient environment. This individual demonstrates competency in delivery of care to a primarily adult population. The Staff RN-Inpatient job description has incorporated essential functions which are adapted from the ANA Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition (2010).

Requirements

• Clinical competence and experience in the care and management of target patient populations specific to area of employment is required.
• A minimum of 2 years of related clinical experience is required, unless approved by the Unit Manager.
• Requires current state of Wisconsin Registered Nurse License or a Multi-state Nursing License from a participating state in the NLC (Nurse Licensure Compact).
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support for the Healthcare Provider (BLS) or an AHA approved equivalent is required within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

• American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is preferred.
• Demonstrated history of leadership roles i.e. Shared Governance unit based council chair, Committee chair, Preceptor, equipment or process Super User/Champion.

Responsibilities

• Unit lead responsibilities for patient flow and adjustment of unit staffing to meet the dynamic needs of the patients.
• Use the nursing process to make ongoing evaluations of patients' acuity, assessments of the staff nurses workload, and anticipate fluctuations in admissions, discharges and transfers.
• Facilitate patient flow, including triaging and prioritizing admissions and overseeing the care coordination of patients being discharged/transferred.
• Ensure safe and adequate staffing for all shifts by balancing patient acuity and census with staff availability, experience, and competency.
• Demonstrate resourcefulness, tactful communication, flexibility, adaptability, decisiveness and awareness of the global needs of the hospital.
• Act as a clinical leader and resource on the unit, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to facilitate patient care stay progression and unit goals.
• Assume a patient assignment as determined by the needs of the unit.
• Monitor and intervene in addressing opportunities for assuring regulatory compliance, quality effectiveness and a satisfactory patient experience, as appropriate and/or delegated by the Nurse Manager.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for an identified group of patients in an inpatient environment.
• Demonstrate competency in delivery of care to a primarily adult population.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Growth opportunity- Career Pathways & Career Tuition Assistance, CEU opportunities
• Academic Partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin
• Referral bonuses
• Retirement plan - 403b
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Free Workplace Clinics
• Employee Assistance Programs, Adoption Assistance, Healthy Contributions, Care@Work, Moving Assistance, Discounts on gym memberships, travel and other work life benefits available

What This Job Offers

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