Charge Nurse - Emergency Room (Days)

About the role

Under general supervision of the Nurse Manager, the Charge Nurse provides professional nursing skills utilizing the nursing process in the delivery of patient care. Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the care for assigned patients. Serves as a patient advocate within the health care system. Responsible for performing patient care requiring specialized training and skill.

Responsibilities

• Completes daily assignment sheets and updates patient assignments on white board as soon as assignments are made.
• Rounds on patients.
• Makes sure patient care activities are being completed (e.g., baths, turning).
• Ensures all staff members follow policy and procedure, assists with the flow of the unit including admissions and discharges, encourages staff members to work as a team, reports all concerns or disciplinary issues to manager or director.
• Troubleshoots problems that arise on the unit and informs management of potential problems.
• Delivers appropriate care to patients, at a competent level, according to the needs of the patient and population served.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, provide, document and evaluate care.
• Collaborates and directs healthcare team in attainment of positive outcomes based on data, research, evidence and professional standards of care.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and appropriate handling of PHI.
• Performs patient care and infection control audits as assigned, including weekly hand Hygiene audit, daily Central Line audit and ensures no narcotic discrepancies need to be resolved each shift.
• Demonstrates an understanding of patient rights, including those pertaining to confidentiality, informed consent and privacy.
• Participates in a systemic, interdisciplinary, and ongoing evaluation of programs, process improvement, and desired client-centered outcomes.
• Participates in survey readiness activities and assures the unit is compliant with all regulatory standards.
• Abides by the HMH Legal Compliance Code of Conduct.

  Requirements

  • Education: Graduate of a school of professional nursing.
  • Experience: Three years of nursing experience preferred.
  • Licensure/Certification: Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Texas, or immediately eligible. Basic Life Support certification and Advanced Cardiac Life Support required prior to working first shift in Emergency Department. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (or ENPC) certifications required within 6 months of employment. TNCC required within 18 months of employment.
  • Physical Demands and Working Conditions: Frequent: standing, walking, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling & reaching. Occasional: sitting, bending, squatting, climbing, kneeling, & twisting. Visual and hearing acuity required; Color vision required for perceiving changes in patients' skin color and colors of medicines and solutions. Work is mostly inside, with good ventilation and comfortable temperature. Possible exposure to: toxic/caustic chemicals or detergents, moving mechanical parts, potential electric shock, radiant energy, communicable diseases, blood borne pathogens.