Team Lead Charge Operating Room Trauma

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Barnes Jewish Hospital 1500 bed Level 1 Trauma Center OR Pod 2 Trauma Team Lead Charge Nurse. This role focuses on Trauma, Ortho trauma, plastics, upper extremity, reconstructive joints, and ortho oncology. The position is full-time, with 3/12 hour shifts per week, typically on weekdays from 0830-2100. It features a rotating weekly schedule that can allow for up to 6 days off in a row. The role includes one yearly holiday rotation (summer/winter), no weekends, and no call. Sign-on bonus eligible. Comprehensive benefits are offered. The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression, promoting professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence. Moves to higher ladder levels result in a percentage increase of current pay. Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals. It was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital. The Perioperative Services team members find a fast-paced environment that will test their professional judgment and critical thinking skills, and encourage tremendous growth. Here, you'll work with world-renowned surgeons and anesthesiologists, assist on unique and complex procedures, work with the latest technologies and treatments, and play a vital role in developing new procedures and treatment protocols.

Requirements

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's - Nursing
• 2-5 years experience
• RN license

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
• 5-10 years experience
• Supervisor Experience: No Experience

Responsibilities

• Under the direction of manager, plans, directs, and coordinates activities of a unit on a designated shift.
• Performs direct patient care as needed and functions as clinical resource to nursing and support staff.
• Assesses, plans, evaluates and documents the nursing process of assigned unit as needed.
• Facilitates identification and resolution of gaps in care from hospitalization, at discharge, and into the ambulatory care setting.
• Critically assess patient data to proactively mitigate impending changes in condition and establishes consults to interprofessional team as appropriate.
• Leads the development and implementation of complex individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and the patient, family, or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care.
• Plan of care reflects application of expert holistic clinical knowledge and skill to anticipate and prioritize complex care needs, anticipate barriers, incorporating interprofessional team and caregiver/family input, and identifies opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
• Actively utilizes and champions scientific inquiry for evidence-based practices (e.g., participates in journal club, facilitates practice change based on new knowledge, recommends new standards of care or revisions to current standards, conduct a literature search to support unit or organizational goals, disseminate new knowledge obtained from relevant conference or continuing education).
• Explore opportunities to advance nursing practice (e.g., support a community service health event as a representative of the healthcare profession, patient/family education group, community advisory board, member of Ethics Advisory Committee, serve as adjunct faculty, leadership board in specialty organization).
• Analyzes gap in practice standards and provides feedback to peers in collaboration with leadership to enhance safe patient care.
• Leads the evaluation of the patient and family experience, and adjusts care provided to improve patient satisfaction and quality of care.
• The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance
• Sign on bonus eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree