RN Registered Nurse Charge Nurse Full Time Days

Vibra Travels•Paducah, KY

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Charge Nurse is responsible for the overall direction and supervision of all nursing department personnel during their shift. This role ensures patient assignments are correct, assists with treatments or administration of medications as necessary, informs physicians of changes in patient's condition, reviews the care of all patients, and acts as an overall leader and resource person for the staff. The position provides care for Adult or Geriatric patients (ages 18 and over) and emphasizes respect for patient rights, dignity, and individuality. Key functions include making equitable patient assignments, delegating tasks to support staff, monitoring task completion, making rounds, responding to emergencies, and addressing patient and family concerns. The Charge Nurse also coordinates patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, oversees the acquisition of supplies and equipment, reviews staffing schedules for adequacy and cost-effectiveness, and completes shift reports. They ensure emergency equipment is operational, act as Team Leader in Code situations, perform iSTAT instrument testing, and maintain a clean and organized unit. The role involves initiating nursing orders for isolation, monitoring telemetry, ensuring proper maintenance of IVs and other medical supplies, participating in policy review and development, monitoring QA activities, attending meetings, and participating in the Unit Performance Improvement Plan. The Charge Nurse ensures safe, effective, and cost-effective patient care practices, utilizes the chain-of-command effectively, reviews dietary logs, completes daily census, demonstrates proficiency in EMR systems (Cerner, STAR, Healthland), resolves Omnicell discrepancies, and ensures completeness of various patient forms. They also coordinate nursing interventions with Therapies and communicate with the host hospital nursing supervisor as needed. The role requires demonstrating procedures for nursing equipment and supplies, a willingness to learn new tasks, generating new ideas, evaluating priorities, communicating organizational values, and fostering high performance.

Requirements

Current RN license to practice in state of employment.
Knowledge of basic computer skills and word processing.
Current RN license to practice by the state of employment.
Must have BLS upon hire or 6 weeks from hire date.
Must obtain ACLS certification within 90 days of employment.
Must maintain licenses and certification for the duration of employment.

Nice To Haves

Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is controlled via user ID and password.

Responsibilities

Provides care for the Adult or Geriatric patient, ages 18 years and over.
Demonstrates and understands the importance of and respect for the rights, dignity and individuality of each patient in all interactions.
Make equitable patient assignments for staff based on the nurse's ability and patient needs.
Effectively delegate necessary unit and/or patient related tasks to Nurse Aides, LPNs and/or staff RNs and assure that assignments are completed promptly and efficiently.
Monitors and ensures completion of assigned tasks by staff members.
Makes rounds during assigned shift and responds to emergency situations.
Responds to patients’ and families’ concerns, ensuring that each concern is documented and a resolution is initiated.
Coordinates admission, discharge, and transfer of patients.
Oversees and coordinates the acquisition of supplies and equipment from Central Supply as needed by unit per policy and procedure and in collaboration with materials department.
Review the schedule for adequate staffing on a daily basis and coordinate staffing issues as needed and utilizes staffing in a cost-effective way by adhering to the staffing matrix (i.e., for call-ins, refer to algorithms for proper scheduling options).
Complete shift report at designated times and relay all pertinent patient information in a concise and efficient manner to oncoming charge nurse keeping the Nurse Manager or others as appropriate informed about status of patients and related matters. Supervises complete, timely, and accurate documentation of patient's’ care.
Demonstrates competence in basic and advanced skills required for delivery of appropriate care on assigned unit. Provide appropriate clinical assistance to staff members requiring assistance.
Ensures emergency equipment is operational by checking equipment during assigned shift and documenting without omissions.
Acts as Team Leader in Code situations.
Perform iSTAT instrument testing as outlined in the technical procedures for each test as approved by the laboratory director.
Ensures the unit and patient rooms are clean and in a well organized condition.
Initiates nursing orders for any isolation type on new admissions and maintains up-to-date isolation precautions ensuring applicable signage is posted.
Will Monitor and follow all procedures regarding patient telemetry. Notifies Nurse of all telemetry alarms, document alarms, give shift reports and report any malfunctions or equipment failure.
Make certain all IV tubing, feeding bags, catheters, dressings, etc., are changed and labeled by staff members per hospital policies and procedures.
Actively participates in development, review and/or revision of policies and procedures and keeps staff informed of new/revised policies and procedures, and review their proper utilization.
Participates in monitoring of assigned QA activities.
Attend monthly Charge Nurse and staff meetings, as well as attend and participate in unit in-service programs.
Actively participate in the Unit Performance Improvement Plan by coordinating all necessary review/monitoring assigned activities on the unit and involve other staff members to the fullest extent feasible. Serves as team leader on Process Improvement team while soliciting additional appropriate team members.
Ensures safe, effective, and cost-effective patient care practices and reports to supervisor.
Effectively utilizes the chain-of-command to secure assistance and guidance for problems related to patient care, staff and/or unit problems.
Review dietary log form for correct information.Complete daily census.
Demonstrates proficiency in Cerner, STAR, and Healthland including ordering or canceling physician orders.
Resolves Omnicell discrepancies according to policy and procedure.
Ensures completeness of forms (i.e. EMTALA, Incident Reports, ROI, Lifeshare, Record of Death, etc.)
Coordinates and plans nursing interventions with Therapies.
Communicates with the host hospital nursing supervisor when necessary (i.e. bed arrangements, dietary, etc.)
Demonstrates procedures related to the use of nursing equipment and supplies.
Demonstrates willingness to try new tasks; generates new ideas for change; evaluates and recognizes priorities; communicates and models organizational values; fosters high performance;
Adheres to all components of the Hospital Compliance Plan in performing job duties and reports any violations or suspected violations of the Plan to the Compliance Officer.
Demonstrates professional conduct and complies with hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Adheres to hospital attendance policy as outlined in the Employee Handbook.
Complies with measures for preventing exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Participates in the Hazardous Material Program; hazards include exposure to blood and body fluids, possible communicable diseases, sharp objects and instruments, assorted chemicals and gasses as listed in the Hazardous Materials Program Manual.
Complies with established Safety and Patient Safety Program practices.
Performs other incidental and related duties, as required and/or assigned.
Develops an understanding of responsibilities for recognizing patient abuse and follows policy for making appropriate referrals/interventions.
Develops an understanding of responsibilities for participation in Performance Improvement activities and participates in such activities.
Limits access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job, and shares such information only on a need-to-know basis for work purposes.