Lead Registered Nurse (RN)

American Addiction Centers•Burlington, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Registered Nurse (RN) oversees the day-to-day provision of patient care, including staffing, workflow, equipment, and supplies. This role assists the supervisor in evaluating and adjusting care and services provided by clinical and clinical support staff, acting as an expert clinical and department resource. The Lead RN may provide work direction to other staff and assist with patient care flow and service provision. Key responsibilities include promoting and implementing care management and quality initiatives, establishing quality standards, and monitoring care delivery to correct problems. The Lead RN maintains current knowledge of policies, procedures, regulatory guidelines, and scope of practice, ensuring staff compliance, and upholds safety and infection control standards. The role involves using the nursing process for ongoing patient care (assess, plan, intervention, and evaluation), recognizing changes in patient status, determining care priorities, and providing triage and consultation. Clinical duties include preparing patients for exams, performing laboratory procedures, advanced clinical tasks (e.g., suture removal, catheterization, wound care, IV therapy), assisting physicians with procedures, administering medications, and providing patient education and counseling. The Lead RN must demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to the age of patients served. Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, formed by the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. It operates under Advocate Health Care in Illinois, Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience, and value-based care, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The system serves nearly 6 million patients, engages in numerous clinical trials and research studies with Wake Forest University School of Medicine as its academic core, and is recognized for expertise in various specialties including cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics, and rehabilitation. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, offering one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs. The organization is committed to equitable care, providing over $6 billion in annual community benefits.

Requirements

Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices
Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) needs to be obtained within 6 months unless department leader has determined it is not required.
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes experiences in precepting, and acting as a nursing resource.
Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills; ability to develop rapport and maintain positive, professional relationships with a variety of patients, staff and physicians.
Demonstrated ability to effectively make critical, independent decisions.
Excellent organization, prioritization and problem solving skills.
Demonstrated leadership skills including delegation, organization, prioritization and building team rapport.
Proficient computer skills including keyboarding, navigation within a windows operating system, use of electronic mail and electronic medical records systems.

Responsibilities

Oversees the day-to-day provision of patient care including staffing, work flow, equipment and supplies.
Assists supervisor in evaluating and adjusting care and services provided by clinical and clinical support staff.
Acts as an expert clinical and department resource.
May provide work direction to other staff and/or assist with patient care flow and the provision of services.
Works to promote and implement care management and quality initiatives.
Assists in establishing quality standards for department.
Monitors and evaluates care delivery provided and takes action to correct problems appropriately.
Maintains current knowledge of applicable policies, procedures and regulatory, compliance and scope of practice guidelines; assists in ensuring staff compliance.
Promotes and upholds safety and infection control standards for patients, visitors and staff.
Uses the nursing process to provide ongoing care (assess, plan, intervention, and evaluation).
Recognizes and responds to changes in a patient's status and need for care.
Determines priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs.
Provides triage and consultation to patient, family, and/or significant others according to protocol and organization guidelines.
Prepares and rooms the patient for exam by obtaining vital signs and documenting/updating pertinent health information (i.e. chief complaint, allergies, medications).
Performs laboratory procedures (i.e. strep test, wound culture, specimen collection, etc.) using principles of aseptic technique and standard precautions / infection control guidelines.
Performs advanced clinical tasks or skills such as removal of sutures and staples, catheterization, audiograms, laboratory procedures (throat/nose culture, drug screen, phlebotomy - butterfly, venous access, heel stick), spirometry, Holter monitor application, casting, complex wound care, fetal heart tone monitoring, Hickman/port-a-cath/PIC line, central line care, conscious sedation, anti-coagulation clinic operation, etc., with demonstrated competency and under clinical supervision.
Assists the physician/provider with procedures and surgeries such as pelvic exams, allergy scratch testing, EMG, cautery, colposcopy, etc.
Administers medications, under physician/provider orders, including: immunizations, antibiotics, narcotic pain medications, vitamins, topical agents, insulin, blood thinners, and allergy antigens.
Initiates, maintains and discontinues IV therapy; performs mixing of medications according to protocols.
Assesses and provides basic to complex patient education and counseling on the performance of tasks, skills, treatment and self-care integrating health promotion and preventive aspects of care.
Follows through with necessary procedure or test requests, prescription refills, new appointment times and referrals to other facilities or services.
Refers questions to physician/provider and relays information back to patient as directed.
Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Benefits

Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program