Charge Nurse (Flint Hills) - Emergency Room - FT - Day

Stormont-Vail HealthCare•Junction City, KS

15h•Onsite

About The Position

The Charge Nurse is responsible for the daily shift operations of the Emergency Department at Flint Hills. This role promotes a strong team atmosphere through motivation, coaching, and conflict management, and prioritizes communication throughout the system and community to facilitate a multi-disciplinary approach to coordination of throughput and capacity management. The delivery of professional nursing care at Stormont-Vail HealthCare is guided by Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and the theory of Shared governance. The Charge Nurse provides strong leadership, motivates staff, organizes workload effectively, and delegates responsibilities appropriately. They may act as a leader for a Nurse Manager or Director as appropriate, and are involved in recruiting, interviewing, coaching, and developing direct reports, as well as applying corrective actions and performing staffing duties. The position also entails providing direct patient care, performing assessments, administering medications and treatments, formulating goal-directed plans of care, establishing patient care priorities, preparing equipment for procedures, and evaluating the effectiveness of healthcare processes. They observe, record, and report patient conditions, document records, perform efficiently in emergency situations, and practice effective problem identification and resolution. Additional duties include greeting patients, collecting history information, instructing patients on sample collection, triaging telephone calls, and instructing patients and families on medications and treatments. The Charge Nurse participates in quality improvement activities, clinical education, orientation of new employees, teaching student nurses, nursing research, and the development and attainment of hospital goals. They delegate tasks and duties in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act and adhere to staffing and scheduling practices, while also seeking validation of knowledge and guidance when necessary.

Requirements

2 years Current experience in related clinical field in acute care facility.
Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other, as identified within the institution.
Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution.
Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning. Strives to manage situations in a manner, which minimizes risk to the patient and the institution.
Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills.
Ability to communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written methods.
Ability to perform mathematical calculations related to medication administration and equipment calibration.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Registered Nurse - KSBN A multistate license with the ability to practice within the State of Kansas is also accepted.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors of Science: Nursing (BSN)
Supervisor experience.

Responsibilities

Provides strong leadership, able to motivate staff and respond to individual needs on assigned department and shift.
Organizes workload effectively and delegates responsibilities appropriately.
Acts as leader for Nurse Manager or Director as appropriate.
Recruits, interviews, coaches and develops direct reports; applies corrective actions as appropriate.
Performs staffing duties within scheduling guidelines.
Provides direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act.
Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiological and cognitive status.
Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
Formulates a prioritized and goal directed plan of care, which is based on patient’s presenting problems and projected outcomes.
Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
Prepares equipment and aids provider during treatment, examination and testing of patients.
Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting outcomes.
Observes, records, and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to provider.
Provides medication as directed.
Documents in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner according to department standards.
Maintains and reviews patient records, charts, and other pertinent information.
Compiles tests and examination results.
Evaluates the patient’s progress towards achieving outcomes.
Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established standards of care.
Practices effective problem identification and resolution as a method of sound decision making.
Greets patients and prepares them for provider examination.
Collects patient history information.
Instruct patients in collection of samples and tests.
Triages and refers incoming telephone calls.
Instructs patient and family regarding medications and treatment instructions.
Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards development.
Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses.
Participates in nursing research activities.
Participates in development and attainment of system wide/department hospital goals.
Delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act.
Adheres to staffing and scheduling practices.
Seeks validation of knowledge base, skill level and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.
Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health.
Performs other duties as assigned.