RN Charge Team Leader Cardiac Cath Services
About The Position
The RN Charge Team Leader oversees a department of frontline nurses caring for patients and provides individualized, comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes. The role includes making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing and updating patient care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The nurse organizes and prioritizes patient care while considering patient needs and comfort; assesses physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs; and develops individualized plans with measurable goals and time frames, involving patients and families in planning. The role implements nursing and medical care interventions, adapts interventions to patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs, and reassesses patients to determine effectiveness. The Charge Team Leader must recognize and respond appropriately to changes in patient condition, apply current practice standards and regulations, demonstrate ethical accountability, and advocate for patients. This position is represented by CNA and is covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. New graduates and nurses new to the specialty are not currently being considered.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse program; Associate Degree of Nursing required upon hire.
- One year of RN experience.
- Active California RN license.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
- ACLS certification from the American Heart Association.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Nursing degree upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Oversee a department of frontline nurses caring for patients.
- Provide comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes.
- Organize and prioritize patient care activities while balancing patients’ needs and comfort.
- Collaborate with other disciplines to develop and coordinate comprehensive, holistic plans of care.
- Apply current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Demonstrate accountability for ethical behavior and address or escalate ethical issues.
- Serve as a patient advocate.
- Complete patient assessments and identify unit-specific physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
- Develop individualized plans of care with measurable goals and time frames, involving patients and families in planning.
- Implement interventions based on nursing and medical plans of care, adapting them to patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs.
- Use equipment and supplies appropriately, including following policies and protocols for transporting, handling, and storing intravenous fluids.
- Reassess patients after interventions, verify their effectiveness, and update plans of care to reflect current needs.
- Recognize and respond to changes in patients’ conditions in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
