Clinical Charge Nurse - Orthopedics

Health First•Melbourne, FL

45d

About The Position

The Clinical Charge Nurse is fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Service and Stewardship by demonstrating leadership through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care according to the standards of professional nursing practice. Nursing care is provided to the individual patient based upon diverse patient demographics and needs.

Requirements

Associate's degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma.
RN Licensure in the State of Florida or endorsement.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (AHA BLS) Healthcare Provider Completion Card prior to start date and maintained.
Must obtain other certification(s) as required by specific unit.
Must be able to speak / understand written and verbal instructions in the English language.
Must meet unit specific care requirements.
Must have ability to work in often stressful environment with patients / families at various ages and levels of understanding.
Must have ability to concentrate on multiple priority activities.
Must have ability to respond appropriately to life threatening situations.
Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrates dependability, reliability and flexibility.
Must have highly developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Two (2) years of relevant clinical experience.
National certification in relevant specialty.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates effective and safe clinical practice as evidenced by observation and feedback, leader rounding, performance coaching and patient outcomes; actively seeks feedback and performance coaching to improve the experience for patients and families.
Resolves or facilitates resolution of patient and family concerns/complaints and serves as a secondary resource to address points of escalation.
Recognizes and resolves safety issues and potential unsafe situations within approved policies, procedures, and protocol.
Effectively leads shift and post-event huddles; facilitates and leads effective interdisciplinary care transition rounds and planning of care for appropriate utilization, care transitions, and safe disposition.
Consistently and effectively demonstrates compliance and monitoring for department service standards such as purposeful hourly rounding, bedside shift report and white board management to enhance communication.
Demonstrates an understanding and effective application of staffing effectiveness principles and optimization of resources to meet dynamic patient care needs real time.
Demonstrates effective management of unit productivity in a favorable way through good planning, organization and time management (e.g. incremental overtime).
Identifies and participates in activities to appropriately improve patient safety, patient throughput, reduce length of stay and prevent readmission.
Actively participates and assists in the selection, development and retention of associates and serves as a coach and resource to peers, staff and other healthcare team members; adds positively to creating and sustaining a healthy work environment.
Demonstrates effective medication administration provided to patients as evidenced by Preceptor Observation Tool, Skills Fair Demonstration, and Clinical Practice.
Demonstrates appropriate delegation and supervision of patient care activities within the healthcare setting.
Contributes to the patient experience as evidenced by positive patient satisfaction scores and HCAHPs scores for department/medical center and/or written compliments by patients/others as well as consistent performance of purposeful hourly rounding and bedside shift report.