LEAD CLINICAL NURSE (PRIMARY CARE CLINIC)

Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board, Inc.•Fort Defiance Agency, AZ

21h•$48 - $62•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Clinical Nurse (LCN) provides guidance and direction to professional employees and ancillary staff under the direction of the Nurse Executive. This role ensures the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into their strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, and work products and services. The LCN identifies training needs, monitors work progress, and communicates with the Nurse Executive for resources and administrative approvals. A key aspect of this role is maintaining a professional and caring attitude towards patients, families, healthcare providers, and other departments, while fostering a positive workplace environment. The LCN is responsible for maintaining professional knowledge and proficiency through continuing education, including unit-specific certifications, continuing education credits, and attendance at workshops. This position also involves performing clinical nursing duties, including patient interviews, health assessments, developing care plans, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, documenting patient care, administering treatments and medications, and independently managing patient care. The LCN utilizes Evidence-based Guidelines for Practice, participates in on-call schedules, leads process improvement initiatives, and serves on hospital committees related to patient care. Additionally, the role requires completing all yearly Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required training and assisting in compliance with CMS standards.

Requirements

Two (2) years of direct work experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) in Primary Care Clinic
Two (2) years of leadership experience in teaching and coaching nursing staff.
Associate of Science degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program.
Valid and unrestricted Registered Nurse license in any US State or territory.
Valid American Heart Association (AHA) certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and maintain certification.
Valid American Heart Association (AHA) certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and maintain certification.
Applicant must have a valid, unrestricted insurable driver’s license.
Resume and references are required.

Responsibilities

Provides guidance and direction to professional employees and ancillary staff under the direction of the Nurse Executive, ensuring that the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
Identifies training needs of the team and provides or arranges for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of tasks.
Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work and reviews completed work.
Communicates upward to Nurse Executive for the purpose of obtaining resources and securing needed information to make decisions on major work problems and/or issues requiring administrative approval.
Maintains a professional caring attitude when dealing with patients, their families, hospital health care providers, and other departments. Maintains consistent support for positive workplace environment and discourages any behavior that could be interpreted as creating or supporting a hostile work environment.
Maintains professional knowledge and proficiency in selected specialty area knowledge and practice through continuing education to include: Unit specific certifications, continuing education credits, staff meeting attendance, and attendance of outside and in house workshops.
Performs clinical nursing duties for patients.
Performs interviews and health assessments to determine plan of care and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to plan and implement interventions for patient care management.
Documents all patient care and administers therapeutic measures and medications as prescribed, to include, but not limited to, medication administration, intravenous fluids, blood transfusions, treatments and maintains those measures taken which are ongoing in nature. The Lead Clinical Nurse (LCN) is clinically responsible for independent management of the patient.
Utilizes Evidence-based Guidelines for Practice as a reference to monitor and maintain standard practices and recommendations in care.
Participates in the on-call schedule as assigned.
Provides leadership to the team in exploring alternatives and determining process improvement measures.
Participates as a member of hospital committees relative to patient care in their specialty areas.
Completes all yearly Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required training by the indicated due dates.
Assists, promotes, and supports compliance with established CMS standards.
Performs other duties as assigned.