Clinician Charge / Cardiology Stepdown Registered Nurse / RN

Emory Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

21h•$47 - $55•Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking a Clinician Charge for the Cardiology Stepdown department. This role is responsible for being a capable clinician charge with broad experience in patient care and a sound understanding of a particular patient population. The Clinician Charge routinely uses acquired knowledge, theory, research, and experience to respond to changes in clinical situations. This RN professional applies the Synergy Model for Care in practice, personalizes care for each patient/family, and serves as a resource to colleagues while being a strong advocate for them. The role involves planning, coordinating, and directing daily operations of a specific shift on a clinical unit, supervising staff, and facilitating communication with physicians and administrators for optimal patient and family-centered care. The Clinician Charge is recognized as a change agent, adept at creative problem-solving, negotiating conflict, and collaborating with others, demonstrating insight, judgment, and clinically sound risk-taking. They role model expert communication and time management skills, demonstrate foresight regarding the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes, and are recognized as an expert clinician and leader within their specialty. This position also involves completing reports, identifying the need for operational form revisions, providing and coordinating unit resources, ensuring policy compliance, staying informed of clinical trends, functioning as charge nurse, mentoring other Registered Nurses, leading team behavior, and providing direction to less experienced staff. Additionally, the role includes completing performance reviews, incorporating the Synergy model for care in assignments, evaluating resource use and cost containment, coordinating unit staffing, initiating tests of change for managerial problems, participating in regulatory agency reviews, assisting with administrative activities like budget planning and cost containment, evaluating policy impacts, supporting administrative decisions, ensuring compliance with educational requirements, and fostering an environment of open communication. The Clinician Charge serves as an arbitrator in conflict resolution, takes action to correct unacceptable behavior, counsels employees, supports unit and colleague needs, empowers and advocates for nurses, addresses customer concerns, handles escalated patient issues, monitors issues and their resolution, and challenges/shapes systems for optimal outcomes. They implement innovative approaches, identify and provide needed educational programs, and develop management/leadership focused in-service training. The role requires demonstrating current evidence-based practice and questioning management practices related to research, as well as achieving points and contact hours as defined in the PLAN (clinical lattice) point system to maintain the position.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
1 year of recent post-graduation nursing experience.
A valid, unencumbered Registered Nursing License approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing.
BLS certification
ACLS may be required for certain departments, post hire
Additional certifications may be required based on department and specialty
If completing virtual care activities that may include multi-state practice, an active compact/multistate license (eNLC) is required within 60 days of hire.
Employees in role prior to 11/09/2025 will have until their next renewal date to achieve compact status.
Exceptions: Emory Warner Robins, Perry and affiliated Physician Groups locations that have an Associate's Degree in Nursing prior to 3/29/2026, will be grandfathered into this role as having met the education requirements.

Nice To Haves

Education - MSN or DNP

Responsibilities

Plans, coordinates and directs the daily operations of a specific shift on a clinical unit.
Supervises staff and facilitates communication with physicians and internal administrators to provide optimal patient and family-centered care.
Is recognized as a change agent and routinely leads efforts to strengthen organizational systems that support the mission, vision, and values of the department.
Adept at creative problem-solving, negotiating conflict, and collaborating with others.
Demonstrates insight, judgment, and clinically sound risk-taking.
Role models expert communication skills to colleagues through example.
Demonstrates foresight regarding the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes based on intuition and experience.
Is recognized as an expert clinician and a leader within their area of specialty.
Completes employee conference, risk management and unit management reports within specified time frames.
Identifies the need for revision and evaluates the effectiveness of operational forms.
Provides and coordinates the resources needed within the unit to provide optimal patient outcomes.
Role models time management skills through example.
Ensures compliance and adherence with stated policies and procedures for the unit.
Remains informed of innovative clinical trends through bench marking and evidence based practice.
Functions as charge nurse.
Role models delegation skills to colleagues and assist them in effective delegation utilizing the Synergy model for care.
Considered an expert and is viewed as a formal leader.
Mentors other Registered Nurses to the role and functions of Charge Nurse.
Leads and coordinates team behavior between staff members and actively fosters the development of leadership skills in others.
Provides direction and guidance to less experienced staff concerning policies, scheduling, assignments, organizational skills and daily operations.
Completes performance reviews with Nurse Manager input as appropriate.
Incorporates Synergy model for care in nurse/patient assignments.
Evaluates the use of resources and cost containment activities.
Coordinates unit staffing to meet the needs of the department.
Identifies one managerial problem and initiates test of change.
Actively participates in preparation of regulatory agency reviews.
Assists in administrative activities such as budget planning, identifying means of cost containment, coordinating unit staffing schedules, and ensuring communication regarding areas of concern to the Unit Director.
Evaluates the impact of policies on daily operations.
Supports administrative decisions and facilitates daily operational issues with the staff.
Ensures compliance with educational requirements through scheduling, planning, and support.
Exhibits desire to hear and understand another's point of view.
Demonstrates and role models effective communication skills.
Takes a leadership role in building and maintaining an environment which fosters open and candid communication.
Serves as an arbitrator in resolution of conflicts between nursing staff.
Takes appropriate action to correct unacceptable communication/behavior as needed.
Takes appropriate action to counsel employees (i.e., verbal warnings for attendance & performance issues).
Aware of and supports units and colleagues needs through supportive and non-judgmental behaviors.
Actively empowers and advocates for nurses.
Takes appropriate action to address customer concerns and complaints (i.e., appropriate follow-up with Unit Director and risk management).
Addresses escalated patient issues and refers issues to Unit Director or Patient Advocate when unable to resolve.
Monitors issues and their resolution.
Challenges and shapes systems on the unit and hospital wide to achieve best possible outcomes.
Implements innovative approaches to meet the needs of patients and families.
Identifies, recognizes and responds to the needs of unit staff to ensure that staff has the resources and tools available to meet patient and family needs.
Identifies, initiates, and collaborates to provide needed educational programs.
Develops management/ leadership focused in-service (e.g., time management, team building, conflict resolution, budget, leadership activities).
Demonstrates current evidence-based practice and disseminates information.
Questions management practice as it relates to research.
Must meet all Clinical Nurse I Employee Commitments.
Achieves points and contact hours as defined in the PLAN (clinical lattice) point system to maintain position.