Registered Nurse - Med/Surg/Peds - Charge Nurse

About the position

Grand Itasca is a great place for Registered Nurses. We're a non-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, Grand Itasca can offer a variety of career opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Assists and supports unit employees: MSP RN's, NST/NA's
• Performs daily rounds in MSP and leads ongoing 'huddles' as necessary to ensure smooth patient flow.
• Collaborates with Manager/House Supervisor to obtain updated census of other hospital units and discuss plan of potential hospital admissions.
• Assists in maintaining patient and organizational flow, admission, and discharge coordination.
• Collaborates with the Critical Care Services and Surgical Services Charge Nurses to assist with any needs of coordinating patient flow.
• Utilization review/Case management support for admission criteria daily.
• Ensure the process of reporting patient status to the following shift of nursing personnel.
• Ensure rounds on patients in the department that they are kept informed and updated on the patient's condition and/or situation.
• Staffs the unit according to organizational guidelines, ensure meal breaks for all staff, and facilitate to reduce overtime.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of care and addresses issues that may affect the desired patient outcomes.
• Promotes the delivery of safe effective and appropriate care in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assists/supports staff with all levels of patient care delivery.
• Oversee and directs the planning and distribution of patient assignments.
• May assume patient care responsibilities by organizing workload effectively and remaining flexible to environmental changes.
• Address patient and/or family issues/concern and communicates to the Manager.
• Assesses risk, responds, and solves issues that may arise in the MSP department and provides a safe working environment for the entire department.
• Performs and/or delegates the completion of quality review, regulatory observational/chart audits.
• Demonstrates ability to provide immediate professional practice feedback to staff.
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of peers, colleagues, and unit.
• Collaborates and supports staffs to ensure the completion of annual unit specific trainings, and organizational required education.
• Responds and assists or delegates all Trauma, STEMI, Stroke activations.
• Ensure completion of the daily/monthly checks (i.e. Crash carts, accuchecks).
• Provides quality care to all patients and ensures patient safety throughout the continuum of patient care.
• Advocates for family-centered approach, in accordance with established policies, procedures of the healthcare organization.
• Oversees and directs the delivery of patient care through the process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementing and evaluation according to the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrated abilities to manage large volumes of multiple patient, family, staff and physicians' priorities within short time frames and organize workload.
• Demonstrates mature judgment, initiative, and proficiency in nursing skills.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities, executive and organizational abilities.
• Ability to lead and mentor change in culture of patient care team.
• Ability to adapt resources to the need of the situation.
• Leads by example in displaying consistent behaviors reflective of GICH standards of conduct.
• Collaborates and delegates to ancillary/professional staff as appropriate.
• Identifies accurately nursing diagnosis/collaborative problems to determine appropriate interventions.
• Assesses the individual needs of the adult, geriatric, adolescent, and pediatric patients and developing appropriate plans of care.
• Acquires and maintains specialized knowledge and skills in nursing practice.
• Utilizes departments equipment correctly and efficiently.
• Communicates professionally and collaborates effectively with patients, families, co-workers, health care team members and ancillary departments.
• Initiates and documents discharge and transfer planning.
• Maintains knowledge of The Joint Commission (TJC) standards and incorporates the standards into the practice of Medical/Surgical/Pediatric nursing.
• Provides leadership in the profession and professional practice setting.
• Participates in professional growth and self-development activities.
• Participates in staff meetings, committees and projects.

Requirements

• Registered with the Minnesota Board of Nursing. BSN preferred.
• 2 years of Acute Care Hospital nursing experience.
• Medical Surgical Certification preferred or willing to obtain within 24 months.
• EKG interpretation preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certifications required and maintain certification.
• Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification within six months of employment and maintains certification.
• Demonstrated abilities to manage large volumes of multiple patient, family, staff, and physicians' priorities within short time frames and organize workload.
• Demonstrates mature judgment, initiative, and proficiency in nursing skills.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities, executive and organizational abilities.
• Ability to lead and mentor change in culture of patient care team.
• Ability to adapt resources to the need of the situation.
• Leads by example in displaying consistent behaviors reflective of GICH standards of conduct.
• Demonstrated ability to follow and adhere to Grand Itasca and Hospital policies, vision, mission, and values.
• Maintains reliable and consistent attendance.

Nice-to-haves

• If no candidates meet the above requirements, consideration will be given to those with 1-year Acute Care Hospital nursing experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarship/grant opportunities
• Health, dental, vision, & life insurance kick in on the first of the month after 30 days of employment
• Generous paid time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance
• STDB (short term disability bank)
• 401K with employer contributions
• Shift Differential
• 12-hour day/night rotations
• Every 3rd Weekend Rotation
• Experience Pay Given
• Employee Referral Program