RN Charge - ICU/CCU - Los Alamitos - FT Nights
About The Position
The Charge Nurse is a management position responsible for organizing, planning, directing, coordinating, and providing high quality, individualized patient care pursuant to the position accountabilities set forth below. This includes assisting with the development and implementation of systems for evaluation of clinical competency of the nursing staff, helping to develop and update standards of care and policies, consultation of the nursing staff for complex nursing issues. It includes providing pertinent continuing education for existing staff, mentoring of new staff, and Performance Improvement activities.
Requirements
- Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
- Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System
- Current California Registered Nurse license.
- AHA Basic Life Support (BLS)
- AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- All external candidates must have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- NIHSS
- Must be able to provide proof of work authorization
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of University and medical center organizations, policies, procedures and forms
- Membership in a professional organization
- CCRN
- Member of hospital committee
Responsibilities
- Organizing, planning, directing, coordinating, and providing high quality, individualized patient care.
- Assisting with the development and implementation of systems for evaluation of clinical competency of the nursing staff.
- Helping to develop and update standards of care and policies.
- Consultation of the nursing staff for complex nursing issues.
- Providing pertinent continuing education for existing staff.
- Mentoring of new staff.
- Performance Improvement activities.
Benefits
- medical insurance
- sick and vacation time
- retirement savings plans
- access to a number of discounts and perks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
