11.61700 - RN

Responsibilities

• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice
• Creates positive therapeutic relationships with patients/families
• Provides leadership to other team members
• Supervises and encourages team members
• Serves on performance improvement teams
• Supports and implements changes for improvement
• Performs initial and annual competency assessments
• Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction
• Maintains financial standards
• Participates in transition rounds, care planning/problem identification and team shift reports
• Assigns and delegates nursing care
• Documents observations, care provided and changes in care plan
• Applies safety principles
• Participates in performance improvement activities
• Assists with compliance requirements
• Communicates clearly and accurately
• Delegates tasks to team members and students
• Addresses conflict and stressful situations
• Engages in face-to-face discussions
• Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards
• Uses electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet
• Works in groups
• Performs structured and unstructured work
• Meets time pressure and time lines
• Exhibits leadership skills
• Deals with unpleasant or verbally/physically aggressive personalities
• Communicates with different personalities
• Performs essential job functions ensuring patient, visitor and employee safety

Requirements

• Current Alabama RN licensure
• Associate degree in Nursing required
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training required
• Professional Nursing Certification preferred
• Ability to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English

Qualifications

• Leadership skills
• Decision making abilities affecting others
• Clear and accurate communication
• Ability to delegate tasks
• Conflict resolution skills
• Face-to-face communication skills
• Electronic communication skills
• Group collaboration skills
• Structured and unstructured work performance
• Time management and meeting deadlines
• Essential job function safety

Skills

• Leadership
• Decision Making
• Communication
• Delegation
• Conflict Resolution
• Facial Communication
• Electronic Communication
• Group Collaboration
• Structured and Unstructured Work Performance
• Time Management
• Essential Job Function Safety

Benefits

• Safe working environment
• Compliance with DCH Behavioral Standards
• Performance Evaluation adherence

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Work Context

• Demonstrates leadership skills
• Requires decision making that affects others
• Responsible for achieving outcomes
• Communicates clearly and accurately
• Delegates tasks to team members and students
• Addresses conflict and stressful situations
• Engages in face-to-face discussions
• Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards
• Uses electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet
• Works in groups
• Performs structured and unstructured work
• Meets time pressure and time lines
• Exhibits leadership skills
• Deals with unpleasant or verbally/physically aggressive personalities
• Communicates with different personalities
• Performs essential job functions ensuring patient, visitor and employee safety

Physical Factors

• Heavy work
• Erecting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally
• Erecting up to 50 pounds of force frequently
• Erecting up to 20 pounds of force constantly
• Standing for prolonged periods
• Reaching reasonable distances in any direction
• Standing, walking, kneeling, bending, sitting and stooping
• Running in an emergency
• Lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying objects
• Finger coordination
• Feeling and perceiving temperature, texture, shape and size with fingertips
• Performing duties with or without reasonable accommodation
• Maintaining stamina for prolonged shifts
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range
• Physical presence onsite is essential