RN Team Lead | CVICU

Children's Health•Dallas, TX

46d•Onsite

About The Position

The Team Leader Nursing Critical Care is responsible for providing leadership to the front-line staff in collaboration with the Clinical Manager or Practice Administrator. Serves as a conduit between the front-line nursing employees and managers for the purpose of facilitating communication, overseeing orientation of new team members in collaboration with the Clinical Educators, and evaluating clinical practice with a particular focus on quality and performance improvement. Responsible for the results and development of assigned team members. Plans and executes day-to-day operational needs by setting priorities, planning for and addressing staffing needs, and coordinating work across other teams as needed. Provides guidance, coaching, and feedback to team members and provides significant input to employment decisions, addresses performance issues and administers performance reviews. Monitors key metrics and analyzes information to solve on-going problems to improve team performance. Serves in various clinical nursing roles (i.e., direct care nurse, charge nurse, etc.). The Team Leader, Nursing will spend 60% of their time in clinical shifts and 40% of their time in administrative/leadership, recognizing that at least 10% of their time in the clinical shifts is still spent coaching, mentoring, and developing staff. Critical care settings are defined as intensive care units and/or the emergency department.

Requirements

At least 3 years clinical experience Req
Four-year bachelor's degree Required
Current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Texas Upon Hire Req
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers as required by CP 1.20 Life Support Course Requirements Req
PALS/NRP/ACLS - department specific requirements (see addendum) Req
Effective April 20, 2020, new employees must obtain PACES certification within 6 months of hire and existing employees must obtain PACES certification upon expiration of their PEARS certification (no later than April 20, 2022). (Department specific requirements - see addendum) Req

Nice To Haves

Leadership experience Preferred

Responsibilities

Perform all aspects of the Clinical Nurse job description when providing direct patient care during scheduled bed side care shifts
Participates in the interview and selection process of new team members
Administers periodic evaluations for new staff members
Administers annual PEAC's/merit increases
Provides performance feedback to staff, including the documentation and counseling of performance issues
Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture
Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on staff
Ensures that staff are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division, and organization
Provides mentoring to staff and developmental opportunities to help team members achieve their career goals
Administers disciplinary action to staff members, when necessary, up to and including terminations, with support of manager and/or director and human resources
Provides appropriate recognition to staff members
Develops and implements Action Plans as a result of the feedback received from the annual Employee Opinion Survey
Accountable to ensure that staff are meeting patient care needs, standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations
Ensures that staff are delivering care with a team-orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgement and appropriate decision-making abilities that take into consideration evidence-based practice.
Ensures that staff are responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and prevent any unnecessary suffering.
Responsible for new hire scheduling with their assigned preceptors during orientation period
Processes Lawson personnel actions for staff
Balances staff schedules to ensure adequate coverage and skill mix on every shift
Monitors trends with attendance and addresses any dependability issues with team members
Approves PTO requests for team members
Monitors FMLA/STD/LOA for team members
Reviews Omnicell reports
Develops and maintains positive physician relations
Responsible for ensuring direct reports timecards are accurate and complete prior to bi-weekly payroll signoff and holds staff accountable for repetitive discrepancies in their timecards
Ensures clean sweeps/unit-based audits are conducted
Ensures readiness for disease specific certification audits (where applicable)
Ensures regulatory readiness
Conducts unit environmental rounds
Monitors the expiration of staff licenses & certifications
Ensures employee related paperwork is sent to HR for filing in a timely manner
Ensures that Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected and secured at all times
Adhere to all infection prevention initiatives (i.e., hand hygiene, proper disposal of waste)
Assumes the Charge Nurse role (frequency varies by department)
Takes on patient load shift (frequency varies by department)