Charge Nurse - OR, Days

About the role

When you join Piedmont, you’re not just changing your work environment. We open doors to real change in the lives we touch—especially yours. We’re committed to bringing award-winning care to communities across Georgia and celebrating the strength our diversity creates. Together, we’re doing big things: one employee, one team, and one community at a time. Piedmont is a place where your work truly matters and where you’re supported to do your best every day. We offer a collaborative culture, innovative resources, and leadership that is genuinely invested in your growth. With competitive benefits, wellness programs, and opportunities for advancement, you’ll have what you need to thrive now and build a strong future.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the delivery of quality nursing care for patients from birth through the lifecycle, as well as operational issues during his/her shift.
• Provides clinical care as needed when census demands.
• Communicates patient care, departmental issues, and staff concerns to the appropriate leader(s).
• Serves as resource for guidance and assistance to the staff.

All Nursing Disciplines:

• Collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer’s health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan of care.
• Coordinates care delivery.
• Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Practices ethically.
• Practices in a manner that is congruent with current diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluates one’s own and others’ nursing practice.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.

Requirements

• Graduate from a recognized, accredited school of nursing
• Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred)
• 1 year of nursing experience in a hospital setting (Required)
• 2 years or more years of nursing experience in a hospital setting (Preferred)
• RN - Registered Nurse - Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNLC Multistate Licensure (Required)
• BCLS - Basic Life Support (Required)

Certifications

• Advanced certification in field of specialty, if applicable
• ACLS Certification (Cardiac Tele, Critical Care, Surgical Services including Labor and Delivery) (Required)
• PALS Certification (Emergency Department) (Required)
• Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Certification prior to independent chemotherapy administration (Infusion/Oncology) (Required)
• NRP by the end of orientation period (Women’s Services: Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby, NICU, NAT, Nursery) (Required)
• AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Program within 12 months of start date (Labor and Delivery) (Required within 1 Year)
• PEARS Certification (at Piedmont Athens Hospital) (Required)
• PALS if unit provides care to pediatric patients (Surgical Services) (Required)
• ACLS and PALS Certification (Emergency Department) (Required)
• Experienced Emergency Department nurses will have 30 days to obtain the PALS certification (Required within 30 Days)

Additional Required Certifications by Unit:

• Cardiac Tele: ACLS Certification (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date) (Required within 180 Days)
• Critical Care: ACLS Certification (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date) (Required within 180 Days)
• Emergency Department: ACLS and PALS Certification (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date). TNCC Certifications required at Piedmont Athens, Piedmont Cartersville, Piedmont Columbus Midtown, Piedmont Henry, Piedmont Newton, Piedmont Walton (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certification within 1 year of start date). ENPC Certifications required at Piedmont Athens, Piedmont Cartersville, Piedmont Columbus Midtown, Piedmont Newton (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certification within 1 year of start date) (Required within 180 Days)
• Infusion/Oncology: Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Certification prior to independent chemotherapy administration (Required Upon Hire)
• Pediatrics: Identifies, reports, and provides appropriate protective measures for high-risk situations including, but not limited to, abuse or neglect, failure to thrive, and potential for abduction. PALS Certification (required at Piedmont Columbus Hospital). PEARS Certification (required at Piedmont Athens Hospital) (Required within 180 Days)
• Surgical Services: ACLS; PALS if unit provides care to pediatric patients (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date) (Required within 180 Days)
• Women’s Services:
  • Labor and Delivery: ACLS Certification (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date), NRP by the end of orientation period, AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Program within 12 months of start date
  • Mother/Baby: NRP by the end of orientation period
  • NICU: NRP by the end of orientation period
  • NAT (Newborn Admission Team): NRP by the end of orientation period
  • Nursery: NRP by the end of orientation period
  (Required within 180 Days)