Clinical Lead - Observation Unit

Trinity Health • Fort Lauderdale, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Lead serves in a first-line management and clinical leadership role coordinating patient care activities on the nursing unit. The role coordinates a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, including care planning, patient teaching, and discharge planning. The Clinical Lead supports staffing and scheduling, participates in interviewing prospective staff, and helps ensure staff follow the nursing process and patient care standards. The role may take patient assignments and assume primary nurse, team leader, or patient care responsibilities as needed.

The Clinical Lead facilitates daily huddles and discussions using huddle boards, leads debriefs after critical events, and supports staff during crises. The position monitors unit operations, communicates departmental issues to the Nurse Manager, contributes to associate evaluations as requested, and follows up on needs communicated by acute care management. The role also supports process improvement through data collection, participation in performance projects, equipment safety checks, and regular review of communications affecting unit practice.

The position coaches and holds staff accountable for safe, evidence-based care, including bedside shift handoffs involving patients and families, purposeful hourly rounding, patient identification and medication safety, fall prevention, specimen labeling, and infection prevention practices. This is a modified full-time day-shift position, scheduled 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with benefits.

Requirements

• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Florida.
• BLS and ACLS required.
• Graduation from an accredited (ACEN/CCNE) school of nursing is preferred.
• A BSN is preferred; candidates without a bachelor's degree in nursing must agree to begin a bachelor's program within 12 months and complete it within five years.
• Strong leadership traits, communication skills, and experience with staffing and scheduling are preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Specialty certification is desirable.
• Previous experience as a regular Charge Nurse or at the Assistant Nurse Manager level on a nursing unit is preferred.
• BSN is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care activities on the nursing unit in a first-line management and clinical leadership role.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary patient care, including care planning, patient teaching, and discharge planning.
• Ensure appropriate staffing and coverage for unanticipated needs, and assist with long- and short-term staff scheduling.
• Participate in interviews of prospective staff and provide input to the Director.
• Ensure staff use the nursing process to meet patient care standards and use effective delegation when assigning duties.
• Work with unit staff to keep Carelogistic/EPIC information accurate regarding unit and patient status, anticipated treatment and discharge, patient location, completion of PPRs when tests are ordered, and patient alerts.
• Take patient assignments when necessary and assume primary nurse, team leader, or patient care responsibilities as needed.
• Perform other job-related duties within scope as requested by the Nurse Manager and assist staff in completing assignments during crises.
• Facilitate daily huddles and discussions around huddle boards, and facilitate debriefs after critical events such as patient falls.
• Receive pertinent information from acute care management and follow up on needs during off hours; intervene appropriately and keep the Nurse Manager informed of departmental issues.
• Provide input to associate evaluations as requested by the Nurse Manager.
• Support continuous improvement and collect data on assigned unit or hospital performance indicators, including chart reviews, tracer activities, hand-hygiene data, and VTE data; submit PI data monthly at least 75% of the time.
• Regularly read and review emails and other communications concerning changes that affect practice, policies, the unit or department, and the organization.
• Perform equipment safety checks, including defibrillator, point-of-care blood glucose, and medication-room checks.
• Oversee appropriate bedside shift reports and handoffs, coaching staff to include patients and families.
• Remind staff to perform purposeful hourly rounding to anticipate patient needs related to the 5 Ps.
• Assist staff in providing evidence-based patient care and following policies and procedures.
• Hold staff accountable for patient-safety practices, including using two identifiers, barcode technology, bedside specimen labeling, and fall prevention, and monitor their performance.
• Hold staff accountable for infection-prevention practices, including hand hygiene, isolation precautions, and maintenance bundles to reduce CAUTI and CLABSI; consider participating in hand-hygiene monitoring.
• Participate in and/or lead performance projects (A3) as determined by the Manager or Director.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits beginning on the first day of work, with no waiting period.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 403(b) retirement plan.
• Retirement savings program with employer matching.
• Colleague Referral Program offering cash and prizes.
• Unlimited career growth opportunities.
• DailyPay access for eligible colleagues.

What This Job Offers

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